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* 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
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Æthelstan or Athelstan ( Old English: Æþelstan, Æðelstān ; c. 893 / 895 – 27 October 939 ) was King of the West Saxons from 924 to 927, and King of the English from 927 to 939.
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The Gnostic social-religious movement and doctrine originated in the time of Peter I of Bulgaria ( 927 – 969 ) as a reaction against state and clerical oppression of the Byzantine church.
Amlaíb mac Sitric ( c. 927 – 981 ; Old Norse: Óláfr Sigtryggsson ), commonly called Amlaíb Cuarán, in Old Norse: Óláfr kváran, was a 10th century Norse-Gael who was king of Northumbria and king of Dublin.
927 and Æthelstan
King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.
Within the year he may have abandoned his new faith and repudiated his wife, but before Æthelstan and he could fight, Sihtric died suddenly in 927.
Æthelstan was the first king of a unified England from 927, and his reign was of fundamental importance to political developments in the 10th century.
In 927, having ejected Gofraid ua Ímair from York, King Æthelstan brought Northumbria under West-Saxon control.
927 and King
In 927, Abd-ar-Rahman also launched a campaign against the rebel Banu Qasi clan, but was forced to break it off by the intervention of King Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona.
Æthelstan's success in securing the submission of Constantine II, King of Scots, at the Treaty of Eamont Bridge in 927 allowed him to claim the title of ' king of the English ', and even " by wishful extension " ' king of Britain '.
Gothfrith was expelled and at Eamont, near Penrith, on 12 July 927, Ealdred, King Constantine of Scotland and Owain of Strathclyde accepted Æthelstan's overlordship.
The Kingdom of England was formed in the mid 9th Century and what is now recognized as England came about in 927 AD when the last of the Heptarchy kingdoms fell under the rule of the English King.
Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks, sent one to the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan in 927, on the occasion of certain marriage negotiations, and it eventually found its way to Malmesbury Abbey.
In 927, Gyeon Hwon of Hubaekje led forces into Silla's capital, Gyeongju, capturing and executing its king, King Gyeongae.
927 and England
Native Celtic peoples had been marginalized during the period of Roman Britain, and when the Romans abandoned the British Isles during the 400s, waves of Germanic peoples, known to later historians as the Anglo-Saxons, migrated to southern Britain and established a series of petty kingdoms in what would eventually develop into the Kingdom of England by AD 927.
After Edward's son Athelstan conquered Northumbria in 927, England became a unified kingdom for the first time.
In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time.
Once the Kingdom of England was united as a whole in 927 it became necessary to subdivide it for administrative convenience and to this end, earldoms were created out of the earlier kingdoms.
John ’ s pontificate saw large numbers of pilgrimages from England to Rome, including Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Canterbury in 927.
The kingdom of Northumbria ceased to exist in 927, when it was incorporated into England as an earldom by Athelstan, the first king of a united England.
Absorbed by the Kingdom of Mercia during the 7th century and then by the unified Kingdom of England from 927 to 1707, it was a separate ealdormanship briefly in the 10th century before forming part of the Earldom of Mercia in the 11th century.
Gobowen () is a large village in Shropshire, England, of population 3, 927 ( according to the 2001 census ).
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