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Hace 5 días · To defend Mercia, he allied himself to the powerful Kingdom of Wessex under the leadership of Alfred the Great (r. 871 ... Army, which conquered Northumbria and East Anglia in the late 860s and drove him into exile in 874. His successor, Ceolwulf II (r. 874-879), was forced to surrender eastern Mercia to the Viking leader Guthrum in ...
Hace 3 días · The formal Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Manuscript 383), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.
Hace 4 días · Ceolwulf II, King of Mercia, gave OVERBURY in 875 to the monks of Worcester, who in 1086 held Overbury with Pendock, where there were 6 hides that paid geld. The manor was confirmed to the prior and convent in 1148 by Simon Bishop of Worcester. In 1240 there was a curia with 3 carucates of land.
Hace 4 días · According to an endorsement of a charter relating to Inkberrow, Bromsgrove afterwards belonged to Wulfheard, son of Cussa, and was given by him at the request of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia (821–3) to Heaberht or Eadberht Bishop of Worcester in exchange for Inkberrow.
Hace 2 días · Alfred was able to force the Danes to leave Wessex in 877, and they settled northeastern Mercia; but a Viking attack in the winter of 878 came near to conquering Wessex. That it did not succeed is to be attributed to Alfred’s tenacity.
Hace 2 días · About 775 Offa, king of Mercia, granted land at Doughton to Worcester cathedral. He also granted other lands in Tetbury to the cathedral, (fn. 1) which may have acquired the whole of Tetbury and its hamlets.
Hace 1 día · One policy that caused deep resentment under William I, and even hatred under his successor William II, was the taking over of vast tracts of land for the king’s forest.
