Sir Frank Merry Stenton FBA (17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England, a professor of history at the University...

Ælfgifu was able to secure the throne for her son. In the view of Frank Stenton, she was probably the real ruler of England for part, if not the whole...

Æthelwulf's son, and this is now generally accepted by historians, including Frank Stenton, Barbara Yorke, and D. P. Kirby. When Æthelwulf became King of the West...

between Ecgberht of Wessex and Beornwulf of Mercia in September 825. Sir Frank Stenton described it as "one of the most decisive battles of English history"...

peoples until the later ninth century", and some historians, such as Sir Frank Stenton, believe the unification of England south of the Humber estuary was...

story is probably a myth and that Gunhilde did not exist. However, Frank Stenton described the claim as a "well recorded tradition", and considered that...

as Stuf and Wightgar were Jutes. Keynes and Lapidge pp. 229-30 and Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxford UP, 3rd edition 1971, p. 23-4 Lees...

king in the eyes of his contemporaries or near contemporaries. Sir Frank Stenton remarked that "much that has brought condemnation of historians on King...

of British Kings and Queens (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 311 Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 204 Cuthred...

(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) According to Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition, 1971, p...

claim to the throne. Harold himself is somewhat obscure; the historian Frank Stenton considered it probable that his mother Ælfgifu was "the real ruler of...

kingdom of Mercia dominated the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy in England. Sir Frank Stenton apparently coined the phrase, arguing that Offa of Mercia, who ruled...

library membership required) "Beorhtric". Britannica.com. 17 April 2024. Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 209 Mike Ashley...

married Frank Stenton, who held the first chair of history at Reading and was already known as a medievalist. Even before her marriage, however, Stenton had...

whom any significant details are known. The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton wrote that "the continuous history of Northumbria, and indeed of England...

(2011) pp. 15 & 18–20 Morten (2011) pp. 21–23 Morten (2011) pp. 25–27 Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford history of England 2, 3rd ed. Oxford/Clarendon:...

the House of Wessex. Ecgberht's descent from Ingild was accepted by Frank Stenton, but not the earlier genealogy back to Cerdic. Heather Edwards in her...

Wayback Machine. Stenton, Frank (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-19-821716-9. OL 5752389M. Stenton 1971, pp. 388–393...

straightforward report by most historians until the late twentieth century, and Frank Stenton observed that "each of the rulers named in this list had something definite...

conquests in the early tenth century, and it was described by the historian Frank Stenton as "an ignominious surrender". Guthfrithson had coins struck at York...

distant areas, and independent rulers who had submitted to his authority. Frank Stenton sees Æthelstan's councils as "national assemblies", which did much to...

officials and payment of various taxes. Some scholars, for example Frank Stenton, author of the standard history of Anglo-Saxon England, along with Keynes...

tapestry weave. Fowke, Frank Rede. The Bayeux Tapestry – A History and Description, London: G. Bell & Sons, 1913. Sir Frank Stenton (ed) et al., The Bayeux...

were described as "noblemen of exalted rank" in Viking Northumbria by Frank Stenton, with a wergild of 4000 thrymsas, equivalent to a king's high-reeve...

William of Malmesbury and Simeon of Durham rewrote Edwin's death. Sir Frank Stenton saw their reports as suggesting that "a rebellion against Athelstan...

relative, succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom"[non-primary source needed] Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (1943, 1971, 1998 Oxford paperback), pages 72–73...

Sawyer, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, 1997, p. 90); Frank Stenton distinguishes between the "Danish kingdom of York" and the "Norse kingdom...

of the Severn Valley in British geography. These historians include Frank Stenton,: 1–5  John Morris, H. P. R. Finberg, and J. N. L. Myres. The belief...

time of Bede and the Domesday Book remain obscure. According to Sir Frank Stenton, "Despite the work of many great scholars the hide of early English...

(2014), pp. 66-67 Stenton, F. M. (1970) Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: The Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton; ed. by D. M. Stenton. Oxford: Clarendon...