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House. Iclingas. Father. Thingfrith. Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æthelbald. Offa defeated the other claimant, Beornred.
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
Grandson of Charles I Offered the Crown by Parliament. Anne [ 87 ] 8 March 1702 [ xxvii ] – 1 May 1707 (5 years, 55 days)(Queen of Great Britain until1 August 1714)(12 years, 147 days) 6 February 1665 St James's Palace Daughter of James II and Anne Hyde. George of Denmark St James's Palace 28 July 1683 3 children.
Great-great-grandson of Eowa. The greatest and most powerful of all Mercian kings, he proclaimed himself King of the English in 774, built Offa's Dyke, and introduced the silver penny. 29 Jul 796. Ecgfrith. 787–796. Son of Offa. Co-ruler, died suddenly a few months after his father.
The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (/ ˈsʌsɪks /; from Middle English: Suth-sæxe, in turn from Old English: Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning " (land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England. [ 6 ]
01869 — Bicester, Oxfordshire – – Was originally 0095 (OX5) until changed to 0869 in 1968. 01870 — Isle of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Uist (US0) – – Was originally 0047 (OH) until changed to 0870 in 1968. 01871 — Castlebay, Outer Hebrides – – Was originally 0047 (OH7) until changed to 0871 in 1968.
796. Year 796 (DCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 796th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 796th year of the 1st millennium, the 96th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 790s decade. The denomination 796 for this year has been ...
Æthelbald c.831 –860 23rd King of Wessex 858–860. Æthelberht c.835 –865 24th King of Wessex 860–865. Æthelred I c.847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871. Alfred the Greatc.848–849 –899 26th King of Wessex 871– c.886 1st King of the Anglo-Saxons c.886 –899. English monarchs family tree.