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Æthelberht, King Of The Hwicce
Æthelberht ( ang, Æðelberht) was a possible King of Hwicce jointly with his presumed brothers Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelric. It is probable that they were all sons of Oshere, although the paternity of Æthelheard and Æthelberht is not explicitly stated in surviving documents. In 692, together with Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelric, he witnessed a charter of Æthelred, King of Merciabr> In 693 the four brothers witnessed a charter issued by their father Osher In neither of these charters is he styled king. See also *Hwicce Hwicce () was a tribal kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. According to the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', the kingdom was established in 577, after the Battle of Deorham. After 628, the kingdom became a client or sub-kingdom of Mercia as a result of th ... External links * Hwiccan monarchs 7th-century English monarchs {{UK-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwicce
Hwicce () was a tribal kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. According to the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', the kingdom was established in 577, after the Battle of Deorham. After 628, the kingdom became a client or sub-kingdom of Mercia as a result of the Battle of Cirencester. The '' Tribal Hidage'' assessed Hwicce at 7,000 hides, an agricultural economy akin to either the kingdom of Essex or Sussex. The exact boundaries of the kingdom remain uncertain, though it is likely that they coincided with those of the old Diocese of Worcester, founded in 679–680, the early bishops of which bore the title ''Episcopus Hwicciorum''. The kingdom would therefore have included Worcestershire except the northwestern tip, Gloucestershire except the Forest of Dean, the southwestern half of Warwickshire, the neighbourhood of Bath north of the Avon, part of west Oxfordshire and small parts of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and north-west Wiltshire. Name The etymology of the name "the Hwic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelheard Of The Hwicce
Aethelheard may refer to: *Æthelheard of Wessex, monarch of Wessex * Æthelheard of the Hwicce, monarch of the Hwicce * Æthelheard of Winchester, 8th century bishop of Winchester *Æthelhard Æthelhard (died 12 May 805) was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in sou ... 8th/9th century, Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury * Æthelgeard, landowner of Winchester and official during the reign of Eadwig in the 950s {{disambig, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelweard Of The Hwicce
Æthelweard, also spelled Ethelweard, Aethelweard, Athelweard, etc., is an Anglo-Saxon male name. It may refer to: * King Æthelweard of the Hwicce (''fl''. 7/8th century) * King Æthelweard of East Anglia (''fl.'' mid-9th century) * Æthelweard (son of Alfred) (''fl''. 9/10th century), younger son of King Alfred and Ealhswith * Æthelweard (bishop of Sherborne) (d. ''c''. 909) * Æthelweard of London (d. ''c''. 915), bishop of London * Æthelweard (historian) Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d. ), was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' known as the ''Chronicon Æthelweardi''. He was a kinsman of the royal family, being a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon King Æth ... (''fl''. late 10th century), also known as Fabius Æthelweard, ealdorman and historian {{given name Old English personal names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelric Of The Hwicce
Æthelric (also: Aethelric or Ethelric) is a masculine Anglo-Saxon name that may refer to: * Æthelric (bishop of Dorchester) (died 1034), Bishop of Dorcester * Æthelric (bishop of Durham) (''fl.'' 1042–1072), Bishop of Durham, once thought to have been an archbishop of York * Æthelric (bishop of Sherborne) (''fl.'' ''c.'' 1001–''c.'' 1011), Bishop of Sherborne * Æthelric of Bernicia (''fl.'' 568–572), King of Bernicia * Æthelric of Deira (''fl. c.'' 589/599–c. 604), King of Deira * Æthelric of Hwicce (''fl.'' 692–736), King of Hwicce * Æthelric son of Æthelmund (''fl.'' 804–after 804), Ealdorman of Hwicce * Æthelric I (''fl. c.'' 1032–1038), Bishop of Selsey * Æthelric II Æthelric (died ) was the second to last medieval Bishop of Selsey in England before the see was moved to Chichester. Consecrated a bishop in 1058, he was deposed in 1070 for unknown reasons and then imprisoned by King William I of England. H ... (''fl. c.'' 1058–''c.'' 1076), Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oshere
Oshere (fl. 690s) was king of the Hwicce, an Anglo-Saxon tribe occupying land in what later became Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. A member of the royal house of Northumbria, Oshere was a sub-king to Æthelred, king of Mercia (d. c 709). Family From meagre sources, historians have tried to piece together the relationships between Oshere and other Hwiccian contemporaries—Osric, king of Hwicce (d. 729), and Oswald, founder of Pershore Abbey (689). There are various theories regarding the relationships among these figures. One is that Oshere was a brother of both Osric and Oswald; another, put forward by Bishop William Stubbs, was that Oshere was the son of Oswald, who was brother to Osric. Royal Historical Society president William Hunt favored the first theory and added that, if true, it would mean that Oshere was a nephew of Queen Osthryth, wife of King Æthelred of Mercia. Historians have felt on firmer ground identifying two sisters of Oshere: Ecgburg, second a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelred Of Mercia
Æthelred (; died after 704) was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an illness. Within a year of his accession he invaded Kent, where his armies destroyed the city of Rochester. In 679 he defeated his brother-in-law, Ecgfrith of Northumbria, at the Battle of the Trent: the battle was a major setback for the Northumbrians, and effectively ended their military involvement in English affairs south of the Humber. It also permanently returned the kingdom of Lindsey to Mercia's possession. However, Æthelred was unable to re-establish his predecessors' domination of southern Britain. He was known as a pious and devout Christian king, and he made many grants of land to the church. It was during his reign that Theodore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reorganized the church's diocesan structure, creating several new sees in Mercia and Northumbria. Æthelred befriended B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Mercia
The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. During this period its rulers became the first English monarchs to assume such wide-ranging titles as ''King of Britain'' and ''King of the English''. Spellings varied widely in this period, even within a single document, and a number of variants exist for the names given below. For example, the sound ''th'' was usually represented with the Old English letters ð or þ. For the Continental predecessors of the Mercians in Angeln, see List of kings of the Angles. For their successors see List of English monarchs. Kings of the Mercians The traditional rulers of Mercia were known as the Iclingas, descendants of the kings of the Angles. When the Iclingas became extinct in the male line, a number of other families, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
