Icel) were a dynasty of Kings of Mercia during the 7th and 8th centuries, named for Icel or Icil, great-grandson of Offa of Angel, a legendary or semi-legendary...

buried at Repton, near Derby. Mercia had been the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom for most of the 8th century, with Offa, who died in 796, the most powerful...

Zaluckyj, Mercia, p. 232. Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 58–59. Kirby, Earliest English Kings, p. 189. Patrick Wormald, "The Age of Offa and Alcuin"...

873–874 that the Great Heathen Army deposed the King of Mercia. Slightly earlier, King Offa seems to have favoured Tamworth. It was there where he was...

into exile to Charlemagne's court in the Frankish Empire by the kings Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802, Ecgberht returned...

within a year, Offa, the grandson of Æthelbald's cousin Eanwulf, had seized the throne, possibly after a brief civil war. Under Offa, Mercia entered its...

Saxo Grammaticus. Offa of Essex and Offa of Mercia are two historical Anglo-Saxon kings. Offa of Mercia is said to have had been named Winfreth originally...

of Mercia. Offa, King of Mercia seemed to resent his own bishops paying allegiance to the Archbishop of Canterbury in Kent who, whilst under Offa's control...

into the abbey, where Eardwulf recovers and escapes to exile. King Offa of Mercia takes control of East Anglia. King Æthelberht II mints his own coins...

Today, BBC TV, 29. 5. 2003. Offa's Dyke Association Newsletter, Number 104, Spring 2007, page 22. The Acting Witan of Mercia minutes and www.independentmercia...

concerns two kings, King Offa of the Angles, a fourth or fifth-century ancestor figure of the Mercians, and King Offa of Mercia (r. 757-796), through whose...

Otto, the King of England (possibly referring to Charles' contemporary Offa of Mercia), and is a cousin to Orlando and Rinaldo, and a descendant of Charles...

Saxony, and relies on guerrilla warfare. Battle of Bensington: King Offa of Mercia defeats his rival Cynewulf of Wessex at Bensington (modern-day Oxfordshire)...

plate 5 (facing p. 22) no. 66: penny of Offa of Mercia: cross with four dots in the four quadrants (etc.) Hubert de Vries, Jerusalem (hubert-herald.nl)....

offer by Offa of Mercia to arrange a marriage between Bertha and his son, Ecgfrith, led to Charlemagne breaking off diplomatic relations with Mercia in 790...

Wessex, while he was exiled in West Francia by Beorhtric of Wessex and Offa of Mercia; the two later married. According to historians such as Pierre Riché...

killed in 757, a brief civil war in Mercia then ended in victory for his distant cousin, Offa. As king, he rebuilt Mercia's hegemony over the southern English...

these imitative dinars—including the famous example bearing the name of Offa of Mercia—are based on originals struck in the year 157 AH (773 or 774 AD). The...

centuries, but the territory was taken by Offa of Mercia in 794. Mercia control lapsed briefly following the death of Offa but was reestablished. The Danish Great...

Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to be deemed the first king of England. For example, Offa of Mercia and Egbert of Wessex are sometimes described as kings of England by...

defined the borderlands as much as Offa's Dyke, a stronger and longer boundary earthwork erected by order of Offa of Mercia between AD 757 and 796. The Dyke...

King Beorhtric of Wessex marries Princess Eadburh, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, and accepts Mercian overlordship. Constantine I is installed as king...

moneyers survived to strike some of the earliest coins known for Offa of Mercia. It was Offa who introduced the broad penny to southumbrian England on a substantial...

Mercia as early as the reign of Offa.[better source needed] By the 13th century, the saltire had become the attributed arms of the Kingdom of Mercia....

Beornred, who in 757 emerged for a short time as ruler of Mercia before being driven out by Offa, could be the same person as Beonna. An alternative theory...

of genealogies, which was created in the last years of the reign of Offa of Mercia, gives a pedigree for Aldfrið, presumed to have been ruler of Lindsey...

is thought to have been the burial place of King Offa of Mercia, who is remembered for building Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border. Bedford Castle was built...

briefly by Beornred, but he is, in turn, ousted by Æthelbald's distant cousin, Offa. In the meantime, Mercian supremacy over Southern England is lost. King Sigeberht...

time part of Mercia), she was the daughter of Frithuwald, a sub-king of Mercia in Surrey. Her mother was Wilburh, of the royal house of Mercia. Her parents...

Offa of Mercia seems to have continued this consultive initiative when he created a larger earth work, now known as Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa)...