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The entries in 812 begin with mention of the situation in Denmark: "Not much later the news arrived that Hemming, king of the Danes had died. Sigifrid, the nephew of King Godofrid, and Anulo, the nephew of Heriold and of the former king, both wished to succeed him. Being unable to agree on who should be king, they raised troops, fought a battle ...
However, the kingdom was not strictly hereditary since rulers were taken by assemblies of chiefs and peasants. Apart from the House of Gudfred, another lineage strove for power. The members based their claim on kinship with a former King Harald who might have ruled in the 8th century.
The Kingdom of Essex was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia. The territory included the remains of two provincial Roman capitals, Colchester and London .
In 812 Sigered was reduced from king to duke by his Mercian overlords. In 825 he finally ceded the kingdom of Essex to Egbert of Wessex. [1] There are some records of Sigered’s possible vassalage to Wessex, but they are not very clear or conclusive. One source is a charter issued by Egbert in 825, which grants land to a monastery in Rochester .
The entries in 812 begin with mention of the situation in Denmark. "Not much later the news arrived that Hemming, king of the Danes had died. Sigifrid, the nephew of King Godofrid, and Anulo, the nephew of Heriold and of the former king, both wished to succeed him.
The Kingdom of Navarre (/ n ... Following a truce between the Frankish kingdom and Córdoba, in 812 Louis the Pious went to Pamplona, ...
The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. ... c. 798–812 Son of Cœnwulf. Although he existed, his status ...
Domnall mac Ailpín (Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein [1]), anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I (812 – 13 April 862), was King of the Picts from 858 to 862.