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...

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...

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...

Seaxburh Queen consort of Wessex Successor none until Cynethryth (wife of Cædwalla) Queen regnant of Wessex Reign c. 672 – c. 674 Predecessor Cenwalh Successor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2011. Simon Keynes, "Cynethryth", in Lapidge, Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, p. 133. Haslam, Jeremy...

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...

and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by parochial church Donnington Friary ^...

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...

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...

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...

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...

offspring, child Y Kunibert, Kunimund, Cynewulf, Kunigunde, Cynegyth, Cynethryth, Cyneric, Chindasuinth, Adelchind, Drudchind, Widukind, Willekind hypocorism...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

reigns only until December; Wessex regains its independence. Offa's widow Cynethryth becomes abbess of Cookham Abbey. December – Ecgfrith is succeeded by Coenwulf...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tale"). Portions of the text, especially those dealing with Quendrida (Cynethryth), are translated in: Fulk, Robert D. "The Name of Offa's Queen: Beowulf...