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17 de abr. de 2024 · Last Updated: Apr 17, 2024 • Article History. Died: 802. Title / Office: king (786-802), Wessex. Beorhtric (died 802) was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, succeeding Cynewulf. Beorhtric was a descendant of Cerdic, founder of Wessex, but his parentage is unknown. In his time the Danes first began invading England, landing in ...
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28 de abr. de 2024 · On Beorhtric's death, he established himself in 802 as ECGBERHT King of Wessex, rebelling against Mercian overlordship. Biography from Wikipedia. He is not known to have struck any coins,[1] and the only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver.[2]
8 de may. de 2024 · In 802 Beorhtric of Wessex died. Egbert returned to England and was elected King of Wessex. The Battle of Ellandun, fought in September 825 between Wessex and Mercia saw Beornwulf of Mercia defeated. This made Egbert the dominant ruler in England.
Hace 5 días · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
17 de abr. de 2024 · Isabella II was the daughter of John of Brienne and Maria of Montferrat. Maria (1192 - 1212) was the daughter of Isabella I, Queen of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade.
Hace 1 día · During the reign of King Beorhtric of Wessex (786–802), three ships of "Northmen" landed at Portland Bay in Dorset. The local reeve mistook the Vikings for merchants and directed them to the nearby royal estate, but the visitors killed him and his men.
Hace 2 días · Eadburh married Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons. Asser describes her as behaving “like a tyrant” and ultimately accidentally poisoning Beorhtric in an attempt to murder someone else; he finishes by describing her death as a beggar in Pavia.[11][12] Note that this Eadburh is not the same as Alfred’s mother-in-law, also named ...
