- 31 July 2022
Æthelred was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Anglo-Saxon King Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in c. 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an unknown illness.
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King Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons, England, from 757 until his death. The son of Prince Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, the noble line of Kings. Offa came to the throne after a civil war that led to the assassination of Æthelbald. Offa defeated the other claimant, King Beornred. In the early years of Offa’s rulership, he likely consolidated his control of the Midlands, taking advantage of the instability in Kent’s kingdom to establish himself as overlord.
- 31 July 2022
Black Anglo-Saxon King Æthelberht, also called Saint Ethelbert the King (died 20 May 794 at Sutton Walls, Herefordshire), was an 8th-century saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon English kingdom today now includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Very few of the coins he issued have been discovered. The British Museum only shows one coin without his face.
Harold I, also known as Harold Harefoot, was King of the English from 1035 to 1040. He came from a long line of Viking Kings, but he is also considered Anglo-Saxon. Harold’s nickname “Harefoot” was recorded as Harefah or Harefoh in the 20th-century history of Ely Abbey, and according to some late medieval chroniclers, it meant that he was “quick on his feet”.
King Sihtric ( Sigtryggr) or Sitric Cáech or Sigtrygg Gále was a Hiberno-Scandinavian Viking leader who ruled Dublin, Ireland and then Viking Northumbria, England in the early 10th century. (d.927), Norse King of York.
Sweyn Forkbeard, Sven Tveskägg was King of Denmark from 986 to 1014, also King of the English and King of Norway. King Sweyn was the father of King Harald II of Denmark, King Cnut the Great and Queen Estrid Svendsdatter. In the mid 980s, Sweyn revolted against his father, King Harald Bluetooth, and seized the throne. Harald was driven into exile and died shortly afterwards in November 986 or 987.
King Echmarcach mac Ragnaill died c.1064/1065, he was a dominant figure in the 11th-century Irish Sea region. At his height, he reigned over Dublin, the...
