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	Cynewulf of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cynewulf of Wessex (died 786) (Means 'Royal Wolf') was the king of Wessex from 757 until his death.
		Cynewulf was also often at war with the Welsh.
		In 786 Cynewulf was surprised and killed, with all his thanes (AS "thegns") present, at 'Merantune' (now 'Marten', a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire (see Grafton)), by Cyneheard, brother of the deposed Sigeberht.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cynewulf_of_Wessex (746 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 688 AD-801 AD
		King Eadnberht imprisons Bishop Cynewulf of Lindisfarne at Bamburgh and besieges Prince Offa, son of the late King Aeldfrith in Lindisfarne Priory.
		King Sigeberht of Wessex acts unjustly and is removed from power by a council of nobles, in favour of his distant kinsman, Cynewulf.
		The exiled Wessex noble, Cyneheard, brother of the late King Sigeberht of Wessex, ambushes King Cynewulf of Wessex while he is at Meretun with his mistress, and kills him.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime2.html (3509 words)

	BROUGHT TO BOOK: LORDSHIP AND LAND IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by David Roffe
		In 757 King Cynewulf of Wessex was at Meretun visiting his mistress when he was caught unawares by the Ætheling Cyneheard, the brother of the deposed king Sigeberht, and slain.
		In Wessex the obligations of both royal and bookland estates were forged into an integrated system of government in the reign of Alfred with the creation of a standing army and a network of garrisoned burhs.
		It was his kin which took primary responsibility in all matters that devolved upon soke and the forfeiture of land, that is causes that were emended by the payment of wites; it demanded and paid the wergeld as appropriate and generally stood surety for the performance of whatever obligations were incurred.
	www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk /bookland.htm (7613 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saxons of Wessex launch an attack on Dumnonia (Devon); Cynegils invades Dumnonia after the death of its king Bledric ap Custennin, defeating the West Welsh under the command of his son and successor Clemen ap Bledric at the Battle of Beandun and forcing him to retreat to Caer Uisc (Exeter)
		Egbert of Wessex is defeated by the Danes
		Death of Aethelbert (Ethelbert), king of Wessex and Bretwalda; succeeded by Aethelred (Ethelred) as king of Wessex (or in 865)
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?srchstr=Wessex (2641 words)

	Offa
		In 779 he was at war with Cynewulf of Wessex from whom he wrested Bensington.
		In 789 Offa secured the alliance of Berhtric of Wessex by giving him his daughter Eadburg in marriage.
		It is customary to ascribe to Offa a policy of limited scope, namely the establishment of Mercia in a position equal to that of Wessex and of Northumbria.
	www.nndb.com /people/040/000102731 (452 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Eighth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ine of Wessex and his kinsman Nun fought with Geraint, the Welsh king.
		Cynewulf, king of Wessex, is killed by Cyneheard,who was soon killed himself; Brihtric becomes king of Wessex.
		Brihtric of Wessex marries Eadburg, daughter of Offa the king of Mercia.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/8cent.html (3569 words)

	Franks and Anglo-Saxons 613-899 by Sanderson Beck
		Judith married Ethelwulf of Wessex; but he died in 858, and her next husband, his successor Ethelbald, died two years later.
		Seven years later Cynewulf was attacked by Sigebehrt's brother Cyneheard, and both were killed, a battle soon celebrated as a saga.
		By modifying the laws of Ine of Wessex, Offa of Mercia, and Aethelberht of Kent, Alfred implied that his laws applied to all those realms.
	www.san.beck.org /AB16-Franks613-899.html (16782 words)

	Branscombe Parish - The Roman, Saxon and Viking eras
		It was not until 760 that the invaders, under Cynewulf, King of Wessex, engaged the Britons of Devon in a final struggle for the region.
		Cynewulf's army came along the "stone warpath", the old Roman road.
		The estates of Branscombe, Axmouth, Salcombe and Sidbury were seized and held as Royal manors.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1491/saxon.html (1086 words)

	thePeerage.com - Cenwealh, King of Wessex and others
		Cenwealh, King of Wessex was the son of Cynegils, King of Wessex.
		Seaxburh, Queen of Wessex married Cenwealh, King of Wessex, son of Cynegils, King of Wessex.
		Berhtric, King of Wessex married Eadburh, daughter of Offa, King of Mercia and Cynethryth, in 789.
	www.thepeerage.com /p15038.htm (649 words)

	Beowulf Guide - Ancestry
		Beornwulf reigned in Mercia from 823-825 A.D. ; he was slain by the East Angles in 825 A.D. Wessex took control of Mercia.
		Wiglaf then took the Mercian throne from Wessex in 827 A.D. but was expelled two years later by Ecgberht, but regained the throne in 830 A.D. "George Bond treated the text as a description of actual people, situations, and political events in the reigns of Mercian Kings Beornwolf and Wiglaf." (Lee, 110)
		It is said he treated all the lesser kings as his subjects and the only king to ward off the intrusion was Cynewulf of Wessex.
	cal.bemidjistate.edu /english/alindahl/beowulf/ancestry.html (473 words)

	EBK: Egbert, King of Wessex
		Egbert was born in the reign of King Cynewulf of Wessex.
		Soon afterward, Egbert made a play for the throne of Wessex, but his rebellion did not gain support and he was forced to flee the country.
		However, the control of Mercia direct from Wessex was an almost impossible task and, by AD 830, Wiglaf had already managed to re-establish his rule there.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/egbertwx.html (567 words)

	Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 29
		Alfred was born atWantage in 849, the youngest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex and hisfirst wife, Osburh.
		The Wessex forces under the command of Alfred (reigned 871-99), then aged 21, defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington in 878.
		AEthelwulf King of Wessex; 'Judith, Charles the Bald's daughter, was crowned and anointed on the occasion of her marriage to king Aethelwulf of Wessex in 856.
	www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p29.htm (9610 words)

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		The boundaries were far from clear and disputes often took place between Mercia and wessex, particularly in the vicinity of the River Thames.
		In the end, Cynewulf of Wessex acknowledged the overlordship of Aethelbald.
		By this year, it would be fair to say that Aethelbald's power stretched from the River Humber in the north to the provinces of Southern England.
	www.sln.org.uk /timelinepages/werrington (582 words)

	Offa — FactMonster.com
		He restricted Cynewulf, king of Wessex, to the area S of the Thames and in 794 had Ethelbert, king of the East Angles, beheaded and thereafter ruled his kingdom.
		In time the rulers of Wessex and Northumbria became his sons-in-law.
		In 786 the pope sent two legates to him, and by 788 Offa had set up an independent archbishopric of Litchfield, thus wresting control of the churches in Mercia from the hostile archbishop of Canterbury.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0836401.html (303 words)

	OFFA (d. 796) - Online Information article about OFFA (d. 796) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cynewulf of Wessex from whom he wrested Bensington.
		alliance of Berhtric of Wessex by giving him his daughter Eadburg in See also:
		It cannot be doubted, however, that at this time Mercia was a much more formidable power than Wessex.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/OFFA_d_796_.html (724 words)

	Cynewulf - LoveToKnow 1911
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		There is more than one meaning of Cynewulf discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
		We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cynewulf (93 words)

	Old English - Grammar and Reader - Robert E. Diamond
		The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting orthography.
		The prose selections include: "The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan"; "The Story of King Cynewulf of Wessex"; "The Wars of King Alfred against the Vikings"; and King Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis.
		The poetry includes: Caedmon's "Hymn" from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Battle of Brunanburg; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of Rood from the Vercelli Book; The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Storm Riddles, The Panther, and The Whale from The Exeter Book.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/literature/diamondoe.htm (156 words)

	Cynewulf and Cyneheard Glossary
		Cyneheard prop n: Cyneheard (in 754 entry) a bishop of Winchester;
		Cyneheard (in 755 entry) the brother of Sigebryht, who was the king of Wessex deposed by Cynewulf
		Cynewulf prop n: Cyenewulf, king of the West Saxons
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/cynegloss.htm (440 words)

	My Family
		Offa II of Wessex died after 796 in Mercia.
		King Offa of Wessex was born in 720 in Wessex, England.
		wrested Bensington from Cynewulf, of Wessex in 779.
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b20.htm (733 words)

	Notes for ~Egbert III "King" of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)*
		Egbert was King of Wessex from 802 until 839.
		When King Cynewulf of Wessex died in 786, Egbert disputed withBeorhtri
		authority was restricted to Wessex and the south east.
	mariah.stonemarche.org /famfiles/nti02375.htm (532 words)

	Saints of August 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He received the pallium from Pope Saint Paul I.
		As archbishop he tried to recover Cookham Abbey in Berkshire from King Cynewulf of Wessex and he convened a synod.
		Like his predecessor Saint Cuthbert, he was buried in the baptistery of Canterbury cathedral, rather than in the abbey church of Saint Augustine, which had been traditional.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0826.htm (2613 words)

	TIMELINE 8th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		He was succeeded in the kingdom of Wessex by Ethelhard, his relative, for 14 years; but he fought this same year with Oswald the etheling.
		Bishop Ethelwold and Acca died this year, and Cynewulf was consecrated bishop.
		779: King Offa of Mercia defeats King Cynewulf of Wessex, capturing Bensington.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline8.html (7575 words)

	0221
		The hero knew what he had to do
		Medieval and Renaissance literature consists of many "great stories" of heroes who weren't "afraid to foght": King Cynewulf of Wessex, Vainamoinen of the Finnish Kalevala, and King Arthur's knight Yvain.
		The heroism is highlighted by comparison to the heroic figures of non-European cultures, such as those of Cherokee legend.
	www.du.edu /~aolsen/1211.html (389 words)

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