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Sigeberht (meaning roughly "Magnificent Victory") was the King of Wessex from 754 or 755, to around 756. Sigeberht succeeded his distant relative Cuthred , but was then accused of acting unjustly. After ruling a year he was accused of unlawful acts and removed from power by the witan or council of nobles. [ 1 ]
East Anglia was awarded to him in 878 as part of the Treaty of Wedmore with Alfred the Great of Wessex. Died in 890 at the age of 55. [28] 890 [27] to 902. [9] Eohric: Killed in battle (along with Æthelwold) in December 902. 902 [9] Æthelwold: Underking of the Danes; killed in battle in December 902. [29] 902 [9] to 918. Guthrum II
Apart from referring to the odd kinsman, Bede offers little that is of help in determining Sigeberht's family connections. Additional evidence is provided by genealogies for Offa, Swithred and Sigered in a 9th-century West-Saxon manuscript and in two post-Conquest sources: William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum and John of Worcester's Chronicon ex Chronicis, the latter including a memorandum ...
King Sigeberht of Wessex deposed and murdered; succeeded by Cynewulf. [5] Wat's Dyke constructed. [1] 758. King Eadberht of Northumbria abdicates to enter a monastery at York; succeeded by his son Oswulf. 759. 24 July – King Oswulf of Northumbria is murdered at Market Weighton; succeeded by Æthelwald Moll (crowned 5 August). 760
A Sigeberht was the son of Sæward, who was slain in battle against forces from Wessex in 623(?), and father of later king Sighere, but Yorke thought it more likely this was his successor, Sigeberht the Good. [2] Sigeberht the Little was considered a pagan and most likely allied with Penda of Mercia in 635, who was also a pagan. [3]
6. She was also 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert, King of Wessex from 802 and King of England from 827 to 839. 7. Aged five weeks, she was christened in the chapel at Buckingham Palace.
Cenwalh of Wessex wins a battle at Bradford-on-Avon. 653. Sigeberht the Good succeeds Sigeberht the Little as king of Essex. The Northumbrian monk Cedd begins the conversion of Mercia and Essex to Christianity at the request of Sigeberht the Good. [1] 30 September – death of Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury. 653 or 654
Sigeberht of East Anglia (also known as Saint Sigebert), (Old English: Sigebryht) was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before his succession and the first to abdicate in order to ...