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See also:OSWIO (c. 612-670) , 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:Northumbria, son of /Ethelfrith and See also:brother of See also:Oswald, whom he succeeded in See also:Bernicia in 642 after the See also:battle of Maserfeld, was the seventh of the See also:great See also:English See also:kings enumerated by See also:Bede. He succeeded in making the See also:majority of the Britons, Picts and Scots tributary to .him. At Gilling in 651 he caused the See also:murder of Oswine, a relative of See also:Edwin, who had become king of See also:Deira, and a few years later took See also:possession of that See also:kingdom. He appears to have consolidated his See also:power by the aid of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church and by a See also:series of judicious matrimonial alliances. It was probably in 642 that he married Eanfied, daughter of Edwin, thus uniting the two See also:rival dynasties of Northumbria. His daughter Alhfled he married to Peada, son of See also:Penda, king of See also:Mercia, while anotherdaughter, Osthryth, became the wife of /See also:Ethelred, third son of the same king. Oswio was chiefly responsible for the reconversion of the See also:East See also:Saxons. He is said to have convinced their king Sigeberht of the truth of See also:Christianity by his arguments, and at his See also:request sent Cedd, a brother of Ceadda, on a See also:mission to See also:Essex. In 655 he was attacked by Penda, and, after an unsuccessful See also:attempt to buy him off, defeated and slew the Mercian king at the battle of the Winwaed. He then took possession of See also:part of Mercia, giving the See also:rest to Peada. As a thank-offering he dedicated his daughter AElfled to the Church, and founded the monastery of See also:Whitby. 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 he is thought by many to have obtained some footing in the kingdom of the Picts in See also:succession to their king Talorcan, the son of his brother Eanfrid. In 66o he married his son See also:Ecgfrith to /Ethelthryth, daughter of the East Anglian king See also:Anna. In 664 at the See also:synod of Whitby, Oswio accepted the usages of the See also:Roman Church, which led to the departure of See also:Colman and the See also:appointment of See also:Wilfrid as See also:bishop of See also:York. Oswio died in 67o and was succeeded by his son Ecgfrith.
See Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ii., iii., iv., v., edited by 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, 1896) ; Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, edited by See also:Earle and Plummer (Oxford, 1899).
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