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...

coins carry images of his wife, Cynethryth—the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever depicted on a coin. Only three gold coins of Offa's have survived: one is a copy...

spelled 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...

29 July to December 796. He was the son of Offa, one of the most powerful kings of Mercia, and Cynethryth, his wife. In 787, Ecgfrith was consecrated...

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...

murdered 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...

Life of Offa of Angel (suggested as analogue to the "Man of Law's Tale"). Portions of the text, especially those dealing with Quendrida (Cynethryth), are...

purpose he came to the court of Offa, king of Mercia, to desire his daughter in marriage. Cynethryth, consort of Offa, a cruel, ambitious, and blood-thirsty...

Brown & Farr, Mercia. Another Cynethryth was the mother of Ecgfrith of Mercia, Coenwulf's predecessor, and the wife of Offa. Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms,...

called Quendrida, a somewhat flawed Latin rendering of Cynethryth, the actual name of Offa's wife. The author, moreover, etymologised the word as consisting...

of the Anglo-Saxon female names Cynethryth and Cwenthryth, may refer to: Cynethryth (fl. 770–798), wife of King Offa of Mercia Cwenthryth (fl. 811–825)...

of about 1.46 grams. His queen Cynethryth also minted these coins under her own name. Near the end of his reign, Offa minted his coins in imitation of...

deeds back to 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...

of Canterbury and the abbess of Cookham Abbey (named Cynethryth, probably the widow of Offa): Offa had taken the abbey and its lands, apparently by winning...

Antiochian Orthodox Church. She was a daughter of King Offa of Mercia and his consort, Cynethryth. Ælfthryth was "either betrothed to or loved by" Æthelberht...

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

Cirencester's account of the murder, which cannot be substantiated, Offa's queen Cynethryth poisoned her husband's mind until he agreed to have his guest killed...

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...

in the name of the queen, Cynethryth, from dies produced by the same talented individual responsible for the best of Offa's portrait dies. This practice...

726 no later than 740 – Æthelheard Eadburh Father, King Offa of Mercia Mother, Queen Cynethryth before 788 – no earlier than 786 802 – Beorhtric Unknown...

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 Mercia...

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...

Coenred King of Mercia 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...

expires. The legend has a number of historical inconsistencies. Offa's wife was called Cynethryth not Botilda and the name is not mentioned in any charter or...

in Galicia Germanic names in Italy e.g. the names of kings Penda, Pybba, Offa, Wuffa, and Sebbi, all Anglo-Saxons born in the 6th or 7th centuries The...

Æthelbald of Mercia; confiscated by Offa and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by...

Æthelbald of Mercia; confiscated by Offa and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by...