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    sovereigns are known to have come ad limina Apostolorum the first of them was Cædwalla, King of the Western Saxons (685-688). Following the foundation of the...
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    vacante of the Byzantine Papacy. On 10 April 689, Sergius baptised King Cædwalla of Wessex in Rome. He also ordained Willibrord as bishop of the Frisians. After...
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    Britons. In 689, Caedwalla of Wessex, king of the Saxons, made a pilgrimage to Rome. The same did in 727 his successor Ine of Wessex who, after abdicating...
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    status-seeking arrivistes is difficult. When Mul of Kent, the brother of King Cædwalla of Wessex, was killed in 687, the price paid in recompense was equivalent to...
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