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Ceolwulf II of Mercia

Index Ceolwulf II of Mercia

Ceolwulf II (died c. 879) was the last king of independent Mercia. [1]

35 relations: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anthroponymy, Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, Barbara Yorke, Battle of the Conwy, Beorhtwulf of Mercia, Burgred of Mercia, Cenwalh of Wessex, Ceolwulf I of Mercia, Circa, Coenwulf of Mercia, Edward the Elder, Great Heathen Army, Hwicce, Kingdom of Gwynedd, Kingdom of Lindsey, List of monarchs of Mercia, List of monarchs of Wessex, Mark Blackburn (numismatist), Mercia, Oxfordshire, Pybba of Mercia, Repton, Rhodri the Great, Roman Empire, Rome, Simon Keynes, Thegn, Vikings, Watlington Hoard, Watlington, Oxfordshire, Wiglaf of Mercia, Wigmund of Mercia, Wigstan.

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anthroponymy

Anthroponomastics (or anthroponymy) is the study of the names of human beings.

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Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians

Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (or Ealdorman Æthelred of Mercia; died 911) became ruler of English Mercia shortly after the death of its last king, Ceolwulf II in 879.

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Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke FRHistS (born 1951) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Battle of the Conwy

The Battle of the Conwy was a combat in warfare between King Anarawd and his brothers of the northern Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd and a Mercian army almost certainly led by Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians that took place in 881.

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Beorhtwulf of Mercia

Beorhtwulf (meaning "bright wolf"; also spelled Berhtwulf; died 852) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 839 or 840 to 852.

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Burgred of Mercia

Burgred (also Burhred or Burghred) was an Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 852 to 874.

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Cenwalh of Wessex

Cenwalh, also Cenwealh or Coenwalh, was King of Wessex from c. 642 to c. 645 and from c. 648 until his death, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in c. 672.

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Ceolwulf I of Mercia

Ceolwulf I was King of Mercia, East Anglia and Kent, from 821 to 823.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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Coenwulf of Mercia

Coenwulf (also spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph) was King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821.

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Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder (c. 874 – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death.

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Great Heathen Army

The Great Viking Army, known by the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army (OE: mycel hæþen here), was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating from primarily Denmark, Sweden and Norway, who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865.

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Hwicce

Hwicce (Old English: /ʍi:kt͡ʃe/) was a tribal kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England.

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Kingdom of Gwynedd

The Principality or Kingdom of Gwynedd (Medieval Latin: Venedotia or Norwallia; Middle Welsh: Guynet) was one of several successor states to the Roman Empire that emerged in sub-Roman Britain in the 5th century during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.

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Kingdom of Lindsey

The Kingdom of Lindsey or Linnuis (Lindesege) was a lesser Anglo-Saxon kingdom, which was absorbed into Northumbria in the 7th century.

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List of monarchs of Mercia

The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th.

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List of monarchs of Wessex

This is a list of monarchs of Wessex until 927.

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Mark Blackburn (numismatist)

Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn, (5 January 1953 – 1 September 2011) was a British numismatist and economic historian.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Pybba of Mercia

Pybba (570?–606/615) (also Pibba, Wibba, Wybba) was an early King of Mercia.

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Repton

Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote.

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Rhodri the Great

Rhodri ap Merfyn (820–878), later known as Rhodri the Great (Rhodri Mawr), succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes, (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.

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Thegn

The term thegn (thane or thayn in Shakespearean English), from Old English þegn, ðegn, "servant, attendant, retainer", "one who serves", is commonly used to describe either an aristocratic retainer of a king or nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England, or, as a class term, the majority of the aristocracy below the ranks of ealdormen and high-reeves.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Watlington Hoard

The Watlington Hoard is a collection of Viking silver, buried in the 870s and rediscovered in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England in 2015.

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Watlington, Oxfordshire

Watlington is a market town and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than from its border with Buckinghamshire.

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Wiglaf of Mercia

Wiglaf (died 839) was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death.

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Wigmund of Mercia

Wigmund may have briefly reigned in Mercia in about 840, in succession to his father, Wiglaf of Mercia.

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Wigstan

Wigstan (died c.840 AD), also known as Saint Wystan, was the son of Wigmund of Mercia and Ælfflæd, daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia.

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Ceolwulf II, King of Mercia, Ceolwulf ii of mercia.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceolwulf_II_of_Mercia

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