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CYNEWULF (d. 785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYNEWULF (d. 785) , See also:king of Wessex, succeeded to the See also:throne in 757 on the deposition of Sigeberht. He was constantly at See also:war with the Welsh. In 779 See also:Offa of See also:Mercia defeated him and took Bensington. In 785 he was surprised and killed, with all his thegns See also:present, at See also:Marten, Wilts (Merantune), by Cyneheard, See also:brother of the deposed Sigeberht. See See also:Earle and Plummer's edition of the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, 755, 779 (See also:Oxford, 1892).

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