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COENACULUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 645 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COENACULUM , the See also:

term applied to the eating-See also:room of a See also:Roman See also:house in which the supper (coena) or latest See also:meal was taken. It was sometimes placed in an upper See also:storey and reached by an See also:external See also:staircase. The Last Supper in the New Testament was taken in the Coenaculum, the " large upper room " cited in St See also:Mark (xiv. 15) and St See also:Luke (xxii. 12). C(ENWULF (d. 821), See also:king of See also:Mercia, succeeded to the See also:throne in 796, on the See also:death of See also:Ecgfrith, son of See also:Offa. His See also:succession is somewhat remarkable, as his See also:direct ancestors do not seem to have held the throne for six generations. In 798 he invaded See also:Kent, deposed and imprisoned Eadberht Prien, and made his own See also:brother Cuthred king. Cuthred reigned in Kent from 798 to 807, when he died, and Ccenwulf seems to have taken Kent into his own hands. It was during this reign that the archbishopric of See also:Lichfield was abolished, probably before 803, as the Hygeberht who signed as an See also:abbot at the See also:council of Cloveshoe in that See also:year was presumably the former See also:archbishop. Ccenwulf appears from the charters to have quarrelled with Wulfred of See also:Canterbury, who was consecrated in 8o6, and the dispute continued for several years.

It was probably only settled at Cloveshoe in 825, when the lawsuit of Cwcenthryth, daughter and heiress of Ccenwulf, with Wulfred was terminated. Ccenwulf may have instigated the See also:

raid of IEthelmund, See also:earl of the See also:Hwicce, upon the See also:accession of Ecgberht. He died in 821, and was succeeded by his brother Ceolwulf I. See See also:Earle and Plummer's edition of the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, 796, 819 (See also:Oxford, 1892) ; W. de G. See also:Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, 378 (See also:London, 1885-1893). (F. G. M.

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