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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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king in the eyes of his contemporaries or near contemporaries. Sir Frank Stenton remarked that "much that has brought condemnation of historians on King...
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of British Kings and Queens (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 311 Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 204 Cuthred...
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(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) According to Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition, 1971, p...
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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...
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kingdom of Mercia dominated the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy in England. Sir Frank Stenton apparently coined the phrase, arguing that Offa of Mercia, who ruled...
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library membership required) "Beorhtric". Britannica.com. 17 April 2024. Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 209 Mike Ashley...
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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...
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whom any significant details are known. The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton wrote that "the continuous history of Northumbria, and indeed of England...
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(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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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distant areas, and independent rulers who had submitted to his authority. Frank Stenton sees Æthelstan's councils as "national assemblies", which did much to...
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officials and payment of various taxes. Some scholars, for example Frank Stenton, author of the standard history of Anglo-Saxon England, along with Keynes...
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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...
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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...
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William of Malmesbury and Simeon of Durham rewrote Edwin's death. Sir Frank Stenton saw their reports as suggesting that "a rebellion against Athelstan...
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relative, succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom"[non-primary source needed] Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (1943, 1971, 1998 Oxford paperback), pages 72–73...
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Sawyer, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, 1997, p. 90); Frank Stenton distinguishes between the "Danish kingdom of York" and the "Norse kingdom...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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