Cynethryth (Cyneðryð; died after AD 798) was a Queen of Mercia, wife of King Offa of Mercia and mother of King Ecgfrith of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only...
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contemporary Frankish coinage. Some of his coins carry images of his wife, Cynethryth—the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever depicted on a coin. Only three gold coins...
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Canterbury in an act of penance. After Offa's death in 796, his widow Cynethryth became the abbess. At the synod of Clofesho, which took place somewhere...
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Reign 685–688 Predecessor Centwine Successor Ine Born c. 659 Died 20 April 689 (aged 29–30), Rome, Italy Spouse Cynethryth House Wessex Father Coenberht...
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Seaxburh Queen consort of Wessex Successor none until Cynethryth (wife of Cædwalla) Queen regnant of Wessex Reign c. 672 – c. 674 Predecessor Cenwalh Successor...
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He was the son of Offa, one of the most powerful kings of Mercia, and Cynethryth, his wife. In 787, Ecgfrith was consecrated king, the first known consecration...
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from Penda, but it might also be Wiglaf's wife, Cynethryth, who was descended from Penda. Cynethryth's name is known from two of Wiglaf's charters, dated...
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Eadburg, (fl. 787–802) was the daughter of King Offa of Mercia and Queen Cynethryth. She was the wife of King Beorhtric of Wessex, and according to Asser's...
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Orthodox Church. She was a daughter of King Offa of Mercia and his consort, Cynethryth. Ælfthryth was "either betrothed to or loved by" Æthelberht II, the king...
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Ælfflæd was a daughter of Offa of Mercia and Cynethryth. She may have witnessed a charter with her father, mother, and brother Ecgfrith in the 770s. She...
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original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2011. Simon Keynes, "Cynethryth", in Lapidge, Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, p. 133. Haslam, Jeremy...
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patronage of the Kingdom of Mercia, and one of the later abbesses was Cynethryth, widow of Offa of Mercia. It became the centre of a power struggle between...
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and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by parochial church Donnington Friary ^...
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the court of Offa, king of Mercia, to desire his daughter in marriage. Cynethryth, consort of Offa, a cruel, ambitious, and blood-thirsty woman, who envied...
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Iurminburh. – no earlier than c. 676 no later than c. 686 – Centwine Cynethryth – no earlier than 685 no later than 688 – Cædwalla Æthelburg – c. 688...
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grains (350 grams), giving a pennyweight of about 1.46 grams. His queen Cynethryth also minted these coins under her own name. Near the end of his reign...
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fl.675–709 r.704-709 Eaffa Bassa Offa King of Mercia ?-796 r.757–796 Cynethryth ?-aft.798 Beornred King of Mercia r.757 Ealhmund King of Kent c.750–784...
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offspring, child Y Kunibert, Kunimund, Cynewulf, Kunigunde, Cynegyth, Cynethryth, Cyneric, Chindasuinth, Adelchind, Drudchind, Widukind, Willekind hypocorism...
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Stane Street in Bishop's Stortford Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement of Cynethryth in Cookham Recovery of the timber from a ship probably from Tudor period...
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a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxon female names Cynethryth and Cwenthryth, may refer to: Cynethryth (fl. 770–798), wife of King Offa of Mercia Cwenthryth...
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Canterbury 946–955 c. 920, near Glastonbury Son of Thegn Heorstan and Cynethryth 19 May 988 Treasurer Chancellor Eadred (946–955) No informal holder; personal...
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and buried. While the Passio S. Æthelberhti implies that Offa's queen, Cynethryth, was complicit in the murder, she becomes the focus of the plot in later...
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earliest biographer, known only as 'B', his parents were called Heorstan and Cynethryth and they lived near Glastonbury. B states that Dunstan was "oritur" in...
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reigns only until December; Wessex regains its independence. Offa's widow Cynethryth becomes abbess of Cookham Abbey. December – Ecgfrith is succeeded by Coenwulf...
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fifth-century namesake, is called Quendrida, a somewhat flawed Latin rendering of Cynethryth, the actual name of Offa's wife. The author, moreover, etymologised the...
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between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the abbess of Cookham Abbey (named Cynethryth, probably the widow of Offa): Offa had taken the abbey and its lands,...
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England, coins were also struck at Canterbury in the name of the queen, Cynethryth, from dies produced by the same talented individual responsible for the...
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announced the discovery of a monastery dated back to the reign of Queen Cynethryth in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church in the village of Cookham in Berkshire...
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Tale"). Portions of the text, especially those dealing with Quendrida (Cynethryth), are translated in: Fulk, Robert D. "The Name of Offa's Queen: Beowulf...
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agreement of exchange of lands between the archbishop and the Abbess Cynethryth. The fifth Council of Clovesho was one of the most remarkable of the series...
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