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Hace 21 horas · One of the stories of women that has survived is that of Eadburh, daughter of Offa of Mercia. What historians know of her life can be found in Asser’s Life of King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. As one of Offa’s many daughters, Eadburh was used to bring Wessex under her father’s influence by marrying Beorhtric, the newly crowned ...
Hace 4 días · E ADBURH (EADBURGA, EDBURGH) of WINCHESTER, St. Eadburh, the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924) and his third wife Eadgifu (Edith) of Kent (†c. 966), was placed in the monastery at Winchester England whilst still a child.
Hace 2 días · CATHEDRAL. The history of the Old Minster of Winchester, setting aside the legends of King Lucius, may be said to begin with the coming of St. Birinus in 635 and his conversion to Christianity of King Kynegils.
Hace 3 días · In the first place it shows that although Winchester was a royal and demesne borough in the latter middle ages, deriving all its liberties directly from the king, in the early 12th century it was, like nearly all the ancient boroughs of England and the Continent, an example of what Professor Maitland has termed 'tenurial ...
Hace 2 días · PRIORS OF WINCHESTER. Winchester was the oldest cathedral monastery, having been founded by St. capæthelwold in 964. On entering office in 1070, bishop Walkelin sought to replace the monks by canons, but although the proposal had royal consent, it was successfully opposed by Lanfranc on his appointment as archbishop later in the ...
Hace 5 días · THE Dean of Winchester has taken time off work amid turmoil at the cathedral over the future of choral music. The Very Rev Dean Catherine Ogle has been at the centre of a storm over the departure of the director of music Andrew Lumsden and widespread concerns about the running of the music department, ooverseen by the precentor Andy ...
Hace 5 días · WINCHESTER — The first batch of citations from Winchester’s new speed cameras were dismissed last Friday in Winchester General District, after the city’s third party vendor mailed out tickets...
