Hwicce (Old English: [ˈʍittʃe]) was a kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the kingdom was established in 577, after...
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Osric was a king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce in the late 7th century, perhaps reigning jointly with his presumed brother Oshere. Osric was...
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Eanhere was a possible ruler of Hwicce, one of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of England, maybe reigning jointly with his brother Eanfrith. His niece, Eanfrith's...
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as Dux (Duke) by Offa (the king of Mercia) of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Hwicce but considered himself as King, jointly ruling with his brothers Eanberht...
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1023) was appointed Ealdorman of the Hwicce by King Æthelred the Unready of England in 994. The territory of the Hwicce was a kingdom in the Western Midlands...
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Æthelric was a king of the Hwicce and son of Oshere; it is possible that he reigned jointly with Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelberht. He is known from...
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Æthelberht (Old English: Æðelberht) was a possible King of Hwicce jointly with his presumed brothers Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelric. It is probable...
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Æðelweard was the king of Hwicce. He apparently reigned jointly with his presumed brothers Æthelheard, Æthelberht and Æthelric. He was the son of Oshere...
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and Deira within Northumbria; Lindsey in present-day Lincolnshire; the Hwicce in the southwest Midlands; the Magonsæte or Magonset, a sub-kingdom of Mercia...
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Eanberht was king of Hwicce, he reigned jointly with Uhtred and Ealdred. In 757 Eanberht, Uhtred, and Ealdred, granted land to Bishop Milred, and in 759...
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Æthelheard was the king of Hwicce, he reigned jointly with his presumed brothers Æthelweard, Æthelberht and Æthelric. It is probable that they were all...
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Anglican Diocese of Worcester (redirect from Diocese of the Hwicce)
St Theodore of Canterbury at Worcester to minister to the kingdom of the Hwicce, one of the many Anglo Saxon petty-kingdoms of that time. The original borders...
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power. For example, a charter of King Offa of Mercia described Ealdred of Hwicce as "subregulus ... et dux ('underking and ealdorman')." In Wessex, the king...
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Bishop of Worcester (redirect from Bishop of the Hwicce)
Christianity portal The Bishop of Worcester is the head of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title...
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Oswald was a brother of Osric, King of Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Hwicce, a sub-kingdom of Mercia in England. In a problematic charter, possibly from 679,...
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Uhtred was the King of Hwicce, jointly with Eanberht and Ealdred. In 757 Eanberht, Uhtred, and Ealdred, granted land to Bishop Milred, and in 759 to Abbot...
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Oshere (fl. 690s) was king of the Hwicce, an Anglo-Saxon tribe occupying land in what later became Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. A member of the...
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of 628, when Penda incorporated the formerly West Saxon territories of Hwicce into his kingdom. The conversion of Mercia to Christianity occurred in the...
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Eanfrith (died c. 674) was the first recorded king of Hwicce in the 7th century. He was the brother of Eanhere, who may have ruled with him. Eanfrith died...
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the kingdoms of the Gewisse and Hwicce suggests a common origin, and an analysis by Richard Coates concluded that Hwicce was of Brittonic origin. Several...
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Worcestershire; the area later became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Hwicce, and then Mercia. Worcestershire was constituted as a county around 927...
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kingdom of Wessex, in 802, a Mercian ealdorman from the province of the Hwicce had crossed the border at Kempsford, with the intention of mounting a raid...
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husband of Lady Godiva. Leofric was the son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce, who witnessed a charter in 997 for King Æthelred II. Leofric had three...
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Ealdred may refer to: Ealdred of Hwicce, 8th-century king of Hwicce Ealdred I of Bamburgh, 10th-century ruler of Bamburgh Ealdred (archbishop of York)...
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Gloucester Abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter and founded by Osric, King of the Hwicce, in around 679. The subsequent history of the church is complex; Osric's...
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Æthelric (redirect from AEthelric of the Hwicce)
King of Deira Æthelric of Hwicce (fl. 692–736), King of Hwicce Æthelric son of Æthelmund (fl. 804–after 804), Ealdorman of Hwicce Æthelric I (fl. c. 1032–1038)...
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Æthelwealh of Sussex (redirect from Eanfrith of the Hwicce)
married Eafe, who was the daughter of Eanfrith, a ruler of the Christian Hwicce people. Bede goes on to say that Wulfhere presented the Isle of Wight and...
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Eafe, the daughter of Eanfrith of the Hwicce, a tribe whose territory lay to the southwest of Mercia. The Hwicce had their own royal family, but it appears...
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*bune, a cup or vessel, with a similar meaning to the later tribal name Hwicce; both being related to the recognisable cult of a Romano-British goddess...
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leading families of the region, probably first to Leofwine, ealdorman of the Hwicce under Æthelred, but certainly soon to his son Leofric. In 1021, Thorkel...
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