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	AETHELBALD OF WESSEX - LoveToKnow Article on AETHELBALD OF WESSEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In botany the word is used of the praefloration or folded arrangement of the petals in a flower before expansion in the summer, contrasted with " vernation " of leaves which unfold in the spring.
		As soon as she was of marriageable age (probably about A.D. 886), she was married to ^Ethelred, earl of Mercia, to whom Alfred entrusted the control of Mercia.
		This noble queen, whose career was as distinguished as that of her father and brother, left one daughter, ^Elfwyn.
	55.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AE/AETHELBALD_OF_WESSEX.htm (1366 words)

	Mercia
		Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams.
		Mercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex.
		The Danes drove Burgred, the last king of Mercia from his kingdom in 874 and in 886, the eastern part of the kingdom became part of the Danelaw, while the western portion was occupied by Wessex.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/m/me/mercia.html (957 words)

	Mercia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Mercia
		Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands.
		Mercia soon returned to the rule of her own king, but its days as the leading power of England had passed.
		For knowledge of the internal composition of the kingdom of Mercia, we must rely on a document of uncertain age, the Tribal Hidage[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /me/Mercia.html (705 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk" (see marches), and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P.
		Offa exerted himself to ensure that his son Ecgfrith of Mercia would succeed him, but after his death in July 796, Ecgfrith survived for only five more months, and the kingdom passed to a distant relative named Coenwulf in December 796.
		In 886, the eastern part of the kingdom became part of the Danelaw, while Mercia was reduced to its western portion only.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Mercia (1202 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 688 AD-801 AD
		The throne is seized by one Eadwulf, of unknown descent.
		Bishop Wilfred of Hexham dies at Oundle and is buried at Ripon Abbey.
		Archbishop Jaenberht of Canterbury is alienated from Mercia.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime2.html (3509 words)

	Ethelbald of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethelbald (or Æthelbald) (died 757) was the King of Mercia in England from 716 until his death.
		Ethelbald spent his early years exiled from Mercia, according to the Life of Guthlac of Crowland, who often provided him and his followers shelter.
		Cuthred was determined to overthrow Mercia's domination of Wessex, however, and in 752 he defeated Ethelbald at Beorhford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethelbald_of_Mercia (481 words)

	The History Bookshop
		With Wihtred's death and Ine's abdication, Aethelbald of Mercia is now the most powerful king south of the River Humber.
		749: Aethelbald of Mercia frees the church from contributing to the cost of public 'burdens', except repairing bridges and fortresses.
		This is probably a defeat for Mercia allowing both Kent and Sussex temporarily to regain their independence.
	www.historybookshop.com /timelines/anglo-saxon-eng-700-849.htm (2097 words)

	The History Bookshop
		Aethelbald, Aethelwulf's eldest surviving son and King of Wessex, marries his father's widow.
		He is succeeded by his brother, Donald I. King Aethelbald dies and the West Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Kent and other parts of SE England, is reunited under Aethelberht.
		The Danes gain control of Mercia, forcing its king, Burgred, into exile in Rome and appointing one of his thegns, Ceowulf, as their client in his place.
	www.historybookshop.com /timelines/british-isles-850-899.htm (1336 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Aethelbald was also able to act as the president of a church council of the province of Canterbury in 746/7.
		Aethelbald, like many other medieval kings, sometimes regretted the pious generosity of his predecessors in giving away royal lands and rights.
		Aethelbald found it necessary to insist, around 749, that whatever grants had been made in the past, all lands had to contribute men to the army and labor towards the building and maintenance of bridges and fortresses.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/8c_kingdoms.html (1926 words)

	Cuthred of Wessex - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The two kingdoms often fought, but it appears that Aethelbald of Mercia was Wessex's overlord, and that he compelled Cuthred to join him in fighting the Welsh in 743.
		In 748, Cuthred's aetheling Cynric, possibly his son, was killed (according to Henry of Huntingdon in a mutiny), while in 750 the ealdorman Æthelhun led an unsuccessful rebellion.
		In 752, Cuthred led a successful rebellion against Aethelbald and secured independence from Mercia for the rest of his reign.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Cuthred_of_Wessex (141 words)

	EBK: Aethelwulf, King of Wessex
		They recovered their dominance in the field, first at the Battle of Aclea (thought to be Water Oakley in Berkshire) under Aethelwulf's second son, Aethelbald; and, subsequently, in a sea-battle off Sandwich, under his eldest son, Aethelstan, who died later that same year.
		In 853, King Burgred of Mercia asked for Aethelwulf's assistance in a campaign against the Welsh, and their alliance was sealed by his marriage to the latter's daughter, Princess Aethelswith.
		Aethelbald was not overjoyed to have his father arrive back in England to reclaim his crown.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/aethelwulf.html (503 words)

	AESTIVATION - LoveToKnow Article on AESTIVATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JETHELRED, king of Mercia, succeeded his brother Wulfhere in A.D. In 676 he ravaged Kent with fire and sword, destroying the monasteries and churches and taking Rochester.
		In a battle on the banks of the Trent in 679, the king of Mercia was victorious and regained the province.
		In the year of his succession a large Danish force landed in East Anglia, and in the year 868 ^thelred and his brother Alfred went to help Burgred, or Burhred, of Mercia, against this host, but the Mercians soon made peace with their foes.
	53.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AE/AESTIVATION.htm (2735 words)

	St. Frideswide
		Frideswide was born around 680 to Dida of Eynsham, a village near to modern-day Oxford, a sub-king of the over-lordship of Mercia.
		Little is known of her early life, but a story, attribute to Robert of Cricklade the then prior of Oxford says she was the intended victim of seduction by Aethelbald of Mercia.
		Aethelbald was temporarily blinded, but it is said he was restored to sight at Bamton by her intercession.
	www.wilfrid.com /saints/frideswide.htm (292 words)

	icBirmingham - Pecking order in land of kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Midlands was part of Mercia, and for a century or so the kings of Mercia lauded it as if they ruled the roost from the Tyne to the Thames, explains Chris Upton.
		Aethelbald is especially unique in that we have a picture of him, the earliest image of an English king not on a coin.
		Aethelbald was entombed here, probably in a large wooden chest in one of the four alcoves.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /expats/pastpres/content_objectid=13980973_method=full_siteid=50002_headline=-Pecking%2Dorder%2Din%2Dland%2Dof%2Dkings-name_page.html (1107 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aethelbald reigned for 41 years and is described in a charter dated 737 as a “King of Britain” (rex Britanniae) and “as king not only of the Mercians but also of all provinces which were called by the general name ‘South English’”.
		Aethelbald was taken to Repton in Derbyshire, the old capital of the kingdom of Mercia, and laid to rest in the large crypt of the monastic church, where later King Wiglaf (840 AD) and his grandson Wystan (850 AD) were also buried.
		From visits of kings from the past such as Aethelbald, right up to its connections with the famous Washington family who came to make their mark on America, the village of Seckington may be small but has managed to make an impressive mark on British history.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /ark2by2/Seckingtonpage.htm (808 words)

	Cynewulf of Wessex explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He may have come to power under the influence of Æthelbald of Mercia, since he was recorded as a witness to a charter of Æthelbald shortly thereafter.
		It was not long before Æthelbald was assassinated, however, and Mercia fell into a brief period of disorder as rival claimants to its throne fought.
		In 779, Cynewulf was defeated by Offa of Mercia at the Battle of Bensington, and Offa then retook Berkshire, and perhaps also London.
	www.wordspider.net /cy/cynewulf-of-wessex.html (424 words)

	Beornrad of Mercia - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Beornrad was briefly King of Mercia in 757, following the murder of Æthelbald.
		However, he was defeated by Offa and fled.
		According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 757: "...Aethelbald, king of Mercia, was killed at Seckington, and his body rests at Repton; and he ruled 41 years.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Beornrad_of_Mercia (135 words)

	NOD - 700 to 799 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		733 CE King Aethelbald of Mercia overruns a large portion of Somerset and wrests the county from Wessex control.
		757 CE King Aethelbald of Mercia is murdered by his own household in a dynastic coup by one Beornred.
		796 CE King Offa of Mercia and King Charlemagne of the Franks seal a trading agreement and a marriage alliance is proposed.
	www.druidcircle.net /timeline-7.html (4618 words)

	www.tarkington.com \| Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Mercia" the land of the Mercians, (from Mearc, Mark, Border) an Ancient Anglian Kingdom in the interior of England, which lay south of Northumbria and North of Wessex and reached westward to the Welsh "Mark".
		It was founded probably in the 2nd half of the 6th century, was flourishing under Penda (killed 655, King of Mercia, 626-655) and his successors in the 7th century; attained the overlordship under Ethelbald (aEthelbald, King of the Saxons was the son of Ethelwulf.
		It was built for defense against the Welsh by Offa, King of Mercia, in the 8th century) I n the 8th century; passed under the supremacy of Wessex (Wesex, on of the Saxon Kingdoms of England, which became the nucleus of the Kingdom of England.
	www.tarkington.com /library/view.php?filenode=103 (564 words)

	Welcome To Worcester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In A.D. 628, in a move to create a buffer zone between Mercia and Wessex, King Penda of Mercia amalgamated several small Anglian and Saxon kingdoms in the lower Severn Valley into a single political unit under the control of the Hwicce, whose territory centred on Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.
		In A.D. 904 Bishop Waerfirth of Worcester gave King Aethelred and Queen Aethelflaed of Mercia a parcel of land, a haga, in the north-western part of the town, on the river between Copenhagen Street, All Saints Church, and present day Deansway.
		While the haga may have contained a royal residence, the value of the land lay in its waterfront, for trade and warehousing, and its proximity to the burh’s north-western gateway (at the present juncture of Bridge Street, Broad Street and Deansway).
	www.cityofworcester.gov.uk /heritage/saxon.shtml (1657 words)

	offa's dyke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Aethelbald the previous king was murdered by his own bodyguard a civil war ensued with Offa and Beornred fighting for the throne, with Offa the victor.
		During this period of civil war Mercia lost control of some of her client kingdoms and their western border was also pushed back eastwards by the inhabitants of Powys who took advantage of the unrest to regain some of the territory they had lost earlier to the Mercians.
		Once Offa was firmly in control of Mercia it is likely that he had the dyke built to be a permanent demarcation of the boundary between the Welsh and his kingdom.
	www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk /saxon_viking/offas_dyke.htm (3475 words)

	Aethelred of Mercia Definition / Aethelred of Mercia Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was a son of PendaPenda (died November 15, 6551) was a 7th century King of Mercia, a kingdom in what is today the English Midlands.
		A pagan at a time when Christianity was taking hold in many of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Penda participated in the defeat of the powerful Northumbrian king Edwin at the battle of Hatfield Chase in 633;2 nine years later, he defeated and killed Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald, at the battle of Maserfield.
		He was a younger son of King Penda, and was kept in concealment for some time after his father's defeat and death in 655.
	www.elresearch.com /Aethelred_of_Mercia (415 words)

	Aethelwulf - Cunnan
		Aethelwulf also allied himself with Mercia to defeat Cyngen ap Cadell of Wales.
		In 855, after his wife's death, he went in a pilgrimage to Rome with a younger son, Alfred.
		On the return journey in 856, he was deposed by his eldest son, Aethelbald, who was concerned Judith might produce an heir to supplant him.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Aethelwulf (187 words)

	Cuthred of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The two kingdoms oftenfought, but it appears that Aethelbald of Mercia wasWessex's overlord, and that he compelled Cuthred to join him in fighting the Welsh in 743.
		In 748, Cuthred's aetheling Cynric, possiblyhis son, was killed (according to Henry of Huntingdon in a mutiny), while in 750 the ealdorman Æthelhun led an unsuccessful rebellion.
		In 752, Cuthred led a successful rebellion against Aethelbald and secured independencefrom Mercia for the rest of his reign.
	www.therfcc.org /cuthred-of-wessex-162493.html (144 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alfred the Great, King of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their first incursion had been against the isolated monastery on Lindisfarne in the year of the incarnation 793, but by the third decade of the ninth century they were growing far more bold and their raids more widespread and destructive.
		the kingdom of Wessex was ruled by Alfred's trouble-making brother, Aethelbald.
		In the year of grace 868, Alfred was married to a Mercian noblewoman named Ealhswith, and in 871 he became king of Wessex upon the death of his brother, Aethelred, in the aftermath of a tremendous battle with the marauding Danes at Ashdown.
	www.societaschristiana.com /Encyclopedia/A/AlfredtheGreat.html (1569 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Wales: A Sense of Wales
		In the mid-eighth century, these differences were emphasized when a long ditch was constructed, flanking a high earthen rampart that divided the Celts of the West from the Saxons to the East.
		Offa's name was given to the lengthy extension of the earlier Wat's Dyke (attributed to Aethelbald, King of Mercia), that had more or less fixed the boundary between the Welsh and Saxons between Chester and Shrewsbury.
		The rest of the defensive wall was probably built to follow the lines of an earlier boundary made by the Emperor Severus, and known as Gaual, a prominent landmark noted by writers such as Nennius, Bede and others.
	www.britannia.com /wales/whist2a.html (712 words)

	Early Christian Ickelingas
		Penda was the last pagan king of Mercia and his children became Christian converts.
		of Mercia who continued the building of the abbey where he was buried in 675.
		Rex totius Anglorum patriae, the supremacy of Mercia declined mainly due to lack of close union between the Iclings and other constituent tribes.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~hickling/asicle02.html (612 words)

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