Dictionary of National Biography, Volumen17Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1889 |
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... seems to have reigned in peace , save that there was some 92 VOL . XVII . I Edward fighting between the Kentishmen and the Danes . Meanwhile Ethelwald was prepar- ing to attack the kingdom , and in 904 he came to Essex from over sea ...
... seems to have reigned in peace , save that there was some 92 VOL . XVII . I Edward fighting between the Kentishmen and the Danes . Meanwhile Ethelwald was prepar- ing to attack the kingdom , and in 904 he came to Essex from over sea ...
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... seems to have marked by this change in the royal style his intention to treat them as one ( GREEN , Conquest of England , p . 192 ) . At the same time an important political distinc- tion existed between them , for the Mercians were ...
... seems to have marked by this change in the royal style his intention to treat them as one ( GREEN , Conquest of England , p . 192 ) . At the same time an important political distinc- tion existed between them , for the Mercians were ...
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... seems a better date ; comp . FLOR . WIG . ) In these words the most brilliant writer on the reign finds evidence of a forward march of the king , of a formidable northern league formed to arrest his progress , of the submission of the ...
... seems a better date ; comp . FLOR . WIG . ) In these words the most brilliant writer on the reign finds evidence of a forward march of the king , of a formidable northern league formed to arrest his progress , of the submission of the ...
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... seems to have been his concubine , he had his eldest son Æthelstan , who suc- ceeded him , possibly a son named Elfred , not the rebel theling of the next reign , and a daughter Eadgyth , who in the year of her father's death was given ...
... seems to have been his concubine , he had his eldest son Æthelstan , who suc- ceeded him , possibly a son named Elfred , not the rebel theling of the next reign , and a daughter Eadgyth , who in the year of her father's death was given ...
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... seems to have retained his influence at the court , though the East - Anglian party headed by Ethelwine certainly lost ground , and there is reason to believe that Elfhere the Mercian ealdorman had the chief hand in the management of ...
... seems to have retained his influence at the court , though the East - Anglian party headed by Ethelwine certainly lost ground , and there is reason to believe that Elfhere the Mercian ealdorman had the chief hand in the management of ...
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