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Vor 3 Tagen · Throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, Powys engaged in numerous battles against the English, with notable victories in 655, 705-707, and 722 AD. These successes, often led by the formidable King Elisedd ap Gwylog, prompted the Mercian King Æthelbald to construct Wat‘s Dyke, an earthwork that marked an agreed border between the two ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Guthlac predicted that Æthelbald would become king, and Æthelbald promised to build him an abbey if his prophecy became true. Æthelbald did become king, and even though Guthlac had died two years previously, kept his word and started construction of Crowland Abbey on St Bartholomew’s Day 716.
Vor einem Tag · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c.849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Vor 2 Tagen · In the ninth century the abbey seems to have shared with Wimborne the honour of giving burial to the kings and bishops of Wessex. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that King Æthelbald was buried here in 860, and Æthelbert, who succeeded him, in 866.
Vor 6 Tagen · Was genau die Turbulenzen auf dem Singapore-Airlines-Flug von London nach Singapur verursacht hat, ist noch unklar, wie Paul Williams, Professor für Atmosphärenwissenschaften, erklärte ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Three of Alfred 's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him. After ascending the throne, Alfred spent [ Alfred Hitchcock ] Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Vor 5 Tagen · The early history of WOLVERLEY presents difficulties. There was a confused tradition current at Worcester in the 11th century that the place had been the subject of a grant by Æthelbald of Mercia to one of his ealdormen named Hwita. (fn. 18) Otherwise the earliest references to Wolverley are dated 866.
