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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
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When the king's thanes that were behind heard in the morning that the king was slain, they rode to the spot, Osric his alderman, and Wiverth his thane, and the men that he had left behind; and they met the etheling at the town, where the king lay slain.
King Ethered therefore fought with the troops of the kings, and there was King Bagsac slain; and Alfred his brother fought with the troops of the earls, and there were slain Earl Sidrac the elder, Earl Sidrac the younger, Earl Osbern, Earl Frene, and Earl Harold.
The king afterwards made peace with them; and they gave him as hostages those who were worthiest in the army; and swore with oaths on the holy bracelet, which they would not before to any nation, that they would readily go out of his kingdom.
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 LONDON IN 1731
At the east end are the King's arms carved between the portraits of the late Queen, at the foot of an arabathram, under a rich canopy northward, and those of King William and Queen Mary southward, painted at full length.
Under the pediment are the King's arms, enriched with festoons; and between the portico and each of the said wings is a triangular pediment, with the arms of the City; and on a pediment over the gate the figures of two lunatics, exquisitely carved.
It was one of the palaces of the Kings of England till the reign of King Edward VI., who gave it to the City of London for the use of their poor, with lands of the value of 700 marks per annum, and bedding and furniture out of the Hospital of the Savoy, then suppressed.
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 St Mary's Prittlewell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Essex, the land of the East Saxons and Prittlewell (originally Pritteuuella) the Saxon name for a stream or spring, the settlement of Pritteuuella most likely named after the fresh water spring (in Priory Park), for the Saxons regarded certain springs as 'holy'.
All this came to naught when King Sebert died and his sons, who never gave up the pagan way of life, ruled this part of the land.
The people of Essex were driven ever further westward, their place taken by Danish raiders and farmer-settlers who followed closely behind.
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 Genealogy
A.D. This year was Ethelfrith, king of the Northumbrians, slain by Redwald, king of the East-Angles; and Edwin, the son of Ella, having succeeded to the kingdom, subdued all Britain, except the men of Kent alone, and drove out the Ethelings, the sons of Ethelfrith, namely, Enfrid.
But he having understood that the king was gone, thinly attended, on a visit to a lady at Merton, rode after him, and beset him therein; surrounding the town without, ere the attendants of the king were aware of him.
The king then went westward with the army toward Exeter, as I before said, and the army had beset the city; but whilst he was gone they went to their ships.
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 Mellitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mellitus was consecrated as Bishop of London by Augustine in 604 and founded St.
He was driven from London by the heathen sons of King Sebert of Essex, after he refused the brothers request for a taste of the sacramental bread.
He fled to Gaul but was recalled by St.
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 Mighty Monarchs II (Barbarians) quiz
Legend: the River Busento was diverted so the body of this Barbarian King could be buried in the dry bed and then the dams broken to allow the water to conceal the location.
This Barbarian King promised, before the Battle of Tolbiacum (496 AD), to convert to Christianity if he was victorious over his enemy (the Alemanni tribe).
Around 420 AD the last King of the Alans was killed in battle by the Visigoths.
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It's said that Sebert, first King of Essex (King of the East Saxons), lived at Burstead and that even London (at the time a desolate ruin), was part of his kingdom.
The Black Death of 1388, combined with the change from agriculture to sheep farming, brought about a general decline in the population of Essex villages, which may be why the hamlet of Basildon never seemed to grow.
Many Essex men joined the lronsides during the Civil War and a grim reminder of those days is represented by the clock face on a large house at Burstead.
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 2. Ancient England under the Early Saxons Page 2
KING ETHELBERT, of Kent, was soon converted; and the moment he said he was a Christian, his courtiers all said THEY were Christians; after which, ten thousand of his subjects said they were Christians too.
SEBERT, the King's nephew, built on a muddy marshy place near London, where there had been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey.
It is impossible to say whose head they might have struck off next, but for the death of KING ETHELRED from a wound he had received in fighting against them, and the succession to his throne of the best and wisest king that ever lived in England.
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 Saint Mellitus d April 24 April 24 624 624 was...
When London London once more became the seat of a bishopric, Mellitus was chosen by Augustine to be Bishop of London Bishop of London and the St.
He was driven from London by the heathen sons of King Sebert of Essex King Sebert of Essex, in consequence of his refusal to give them the sacramental bread unless they consented to be baptised.
He fled to Gaul Gaul but was recalled by St. Laurence of Canterbury, upon whose death, in 619 619, he succeeded as Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 saeberht genealogy - you'll find information you need here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He was king by when he sheltered the has suggested the East Saxon S berht as the most likely candidate for.
Author Ronald Mann on and given that the King of Essex was "Saeberht" son of Daddy and that the Essex the kingdom of the East Saxons was according to Roger of Wendover in the 'Flores Historiarum' founded in.
First Christian King of Essex The genealogy of the kings of Sussex has not been preserved beyond the fact that Aelle the founder of The Project Gutenberg eBook History of the English People Volume I by John Richard Green.
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 Juergs London Guide - Westminster
The street gets it's name from the fact that visiting Kings of Scotland and their ambassadors stayed here, the first was Kenneth 3 in 959 and the last was Margaret.
In 785 King Offa of Mercia is supposed to have granted a charter to "St Peter and the needy people of God in Thorney in the terrible place which is called Westminster".
In 1042 Edward the Confessor undertook the restoration of the church, at the end of 1065 the new church was consecrated, 8 days later he died and was buried before the high alter.
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 Early Years
Burial mounds still exist in Norsey Woods evidencing its occupation in the Bronze and Iron Ages, with the town being born at the time of the Roman Invasion in 55 BC and 54 BC.
Roman historians note that Essex was inhabited by a people known as the Trinovantes when the final wave of the Roman invasion took place in A.D.43.
In the seventh Century the people of Essex were known as the East Saxons and were ruled by King Sebert.
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 The Ward of King Canute by Ottilie A Liljencrantz - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/5)
His laughter vanishing, the King came to earth in both senses of the phrase.
King's huntsmen struggled with braces of leashed hounds.
Sebert smiled his satisfaction as the sandals pattered away.
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 The Ward of King Canute by Ottilie A Liljencrantz - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/5)
Sebert's frank face betrayed his surprise at the complaisance, but he gave his
Sebert; they will be cheering in a moment, the churls; so pleased are they at
Sebert's hand was lifted from the red cloak to touch the thin cheek
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 Old St. Paul's Cathedral, by William Benham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Hope and his fellow-explorers a few years ago unearthed one at Silchester, and the foundations of another may be seen in the churchyard of Lyminge in Kent.
And this is really all we can say about the Church in London during the Roman occupation.  The story of King Lucius and that of the church of St.
We pass over the unhappy reign of Edward II., only noting that the Bishop of Exeter, Stapylton, who was ruling for him in London, was dragged out of St. Paul’s, where he had taken sanctuary, and beheaded in Cheapside.  He was the founder of Exeter College, Oxford.
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 Knowhere: Billericay, Essex, Local Heroes, Famous Residents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lee Evans is a Billericay school boy and an awful song was once written named "tricky dicky from billericay" god rest ian's soul, no one very important though.
The "Billericay Barstards" a Hells Angels type gang were infamous throughout Essex in the early - mid Seventies, although never as bad as they were often painted.
The "Billericay Barstards" were an infamous band of "Hell's Angel" types in the early seventies, remembered mainly for the fracas at Billericay School disco/dance one Friday evening in late '72 early '73.
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 Ron521
2370 B.C.E. Sumeria weakened by crop failures, is conquered by Akkadian king Sargon.
Non-Christian temples looted and burned, and citizens forced to accept baptism or be executed.
C.E. Magnus Erikson, King of Norway, sends expedition to Vinland to re-establish Christian faith among colonists, who he fears have lapsed into "pagan"; practices.
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