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See also:OFFA (d. 796) , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Mercia, obtained that See also:kingdom in A.D. 757, after, See also:driving out Beornred, who had succeeded a few months earlier on the See also:murder of £See also:Ethelbald. He traced his descent from Pybba, the See also:father of See also:Penda, through Eowa, See also:brother of that king, his own father's name being Thingferth. In 779 he was at See also:war with See also:Cynewulf of Wessex from whom he wrested Bensington. It is not unlikely that the See also:Thames became the boundary of the two kingdoms about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. In 787 the See also:power of Offa was displayed in a See also:synod held at a See also:place called Cealchyth. He deprived Ja;nberht, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, of several of his See also:suffragan See also:sees, and assigned them to See also:Lichfield, which, with the leave of the See also:pope, he constituted as a See also:separate archbishopric under Hygeberht. He also took See also:advantage of this See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting to have his son Ecgferth consecrated as his colleague, and that See also:prince subsequently signed charters as Rex Merciorum. In 789 Offa secured the See also:alliance of Berhtric of Wessex by giving him his daughter Eadburg in See also:marriage. In 794 he appears to have caused the See also:death of IEthelberht of See also:East Anglia, though some accounts ascribe the murder to Cynethryth, the wife of Offa. In 796 Offa died after a reign of See also:thirty-nine years and was succeeded by his son Ecgferth. It is customary to ascribe to Offa a policy of limited See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope, namely the See also:establishment of Mercia in a position equal to that of Wessex and of See also:Northumbria. This is supposed to be illustrated by his See also:measures with regard to the see of Lichfield. It cannot be doubted, however, that at this time Mercia was a much more formidable power than Wessex. Off a, like most of his predecessors,probably held a See also:kind of supremacy over all kingdoms southpf the See also:Humber. He seems, however, not to have been contented with this position, and to have entertained the See also:design of putting an end to the dependent kingdoms. At all events we hear of no See also:kings of the See also:Hwicce after about 780, and the kings of See also:Sussex seem to have given up the royal See also:title about the same time. Further, there is no See also:evidence for any kings in See also:Kent from 784 until after Offa's death. To Offa is ascribed by See also:Asser, in his See also:life of See also:Alfred, the See also:great fortification against the Welsh which is still known as " Offa's See also:dike." It stretched from See also:sea to sea and consisted of a See also:wall and a rampart. An See also:account of his Welsh See also:campaigns is given in the Vitae duorum Offarum, but it is difficult
to determine how far the stories there given have an See also:historical basis.
See Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, ed. J. See also:Earle and C. Plummer (See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1899), s.a. 755, 777, 785, 787, 792, 794, 796, 836; W. de G. See also:Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum (See also:London, 1885—1893), vol. i. ; Asser, Life of Alfred, ed. W. H. See also:Stevenson (Oxford, 1904); Vitae duorum Offarum (in See also:works of See also:Matthew See also:Paris, ed. W. Wats, London, 1640).
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