He is known to have revoked a charter of Egbert's on the grounds that " it was wrong that his thegn should have presumed to give land allotted to him by his lord into the power of another without his witness ", but the date of Egbert's original grant is unknown, as is the date of Offa's revocation of it.

Wulfhere may have had an interest in the succession, as through his marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, Eadric and Wihtred.

It is possible that the chronicler was merely adding Egbert's name to Bede's original list of seven, rather than claiming that no other kings achieved similar powers in England.

He questioned some of Egbert's friends who were nearly as ignorant, since Egbert had never played the game at Michigan State.

Egbert's later years saw the beginning of Danish Viking raids on Wessex, which occurred frequently from 835 onwards.

Some historians believe that the Chronicle's " three years " is an error, and should read " thirteen years ", which would mean Egbert's exile lasted from 789 to 802, but this reading is disputed.

Four years after Egbert's death, Dear revealed his story in his 1984 book The Dungeon Master.

After a few months Alfred called his loyal men to Egbert's Stone, and from there they travelled to Ethandun to fight the invaders.

Apart from the reference to Egbert's grant at Pawton there is no indication that English rule extended deep into Cornwall at this stage and the absence of any burhs west of Lydford in the Burghal Hidage may suggest limitations on the authority of the Kingdom of Wessex in parts of Cornwall.

It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective ruler of Kent in the interregnum between Egbert's death and Hlothhere's accession.

Having defeated King Beorhtwulf of Mercia in battle, the Danes moved on to invade Wessex, but were decisively crushed by Egbert's son and successor King Aethelwulf in the exceptionally bloody Battle of Aclea.

Egbert's parents subsequently hired private investigator William Dear to find their son.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

The situation in Kent at Egbert's death in 673 is not clearly recorded.

The charter, made from Thame, is dated between 673 and 675, and it was probably Egbert's death that triggered Wulfhere's intervention.

The point at which the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire meet beside the lake at the rear of Bourton Mill is marked by Egbert's Stone which once fell into the River Stour, but was rescued and re-erected.

King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on the supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the Battle of Ethandun.

He succeeded his father as King of Wessex on Egbert's death in 839, at which time his kingdom stretched from the county of Kent in the east to Devon in the west.

* The family frequently mentions Egbert's smoking while upstairs in his room, a fact which he tries to hide.

* St. Egbert's Catholic School

It appears that a year passed before Hlothhere, Egbert's brother, became king.

Ferguson began to plot to bring down Reynolds and began working with the Minister for Corrective Services, Julie Egbert's soon to be mother in law and corrupt inmates in an attempt to win the governorship.

King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on one supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the battle.

The titular kingship became something like the heir-apparent's title, as Aethelwulf, Egbert's son, became King of Kent in 825.

Bede was not sure whether or not the vision was actually Egbert's own.

Wiglaf recovered the kingdom in 830, probably by force although it may be that Wiglaf remained subject to Egbert's overlordship.

The causes of the fluctuating fortunes of Mercia and Wessex are a matter of speculation, but it may be that Carolingian support influenced both Egbert's ascendancy and the subsequent Mercian recovery.

Media accounts differed substantially from Egbert's actual story.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

Since Henry's death, none of the Jacobite heirs have claimed the English or Scottish thrones.

John's position was undermined by Walter's relative popularity and by the news that Richard had married whilst in Cyprus, which presented the possibility that Richard would have legitimate children and heirs.

Mormons teach that " all who have died without a knowledge of gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God.

They may have thought of themselves as the heirs to the prestigious civilizations that had preceded them.

Escher " in the United States was opposed, but the Dutch company prevailed in the courts on the grounds that an artist or his heirs have a right to trademark his name.

According to tradition, he can only marry his fiancées after they have fallen pregnant, proving they can bear heirs.

A member of the Company would register the book, and would then have a perpetual copyright over its printing, copying and publication, which could be leased, transferred to others or given to heirs upon the member's death.

The act restricts the British throne to the " Protestant heirs " of Sophia of Hanover who have never been Roman Catholic and who have never married a Roman Catholic.

The Treason Act 1795 and the Treason Act 1817 have been repealed by section 11 of the Crimes Act 1900, except in so far as they relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim, or wounding, imprisonment, or restraint of the person of the heirs and successors of King George III of the United Kingdom, and the expressing, uttering, or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them.

Those who have funded this endowment include the pharmaceutical industrialist Eli Lilly, the company he founded, and his heirs.

In exchange for Russian support, he agreed to give up any remaining Polish claims to Livonia, and promised to Anna of Russia her choice of successor to the Duchy of Courland, a Polish fief ( of which she had been duchess prior to her ascension to the Russian throne ) which would have otherwise come under direct Polish rule on the death of the current duke, Ferdinand Kettler, who had no heirs.

Furthermore, the heirs of both the Latin princes were to marry children of Charles, and Charles was to have the reversion of the Empire and Principality should the couples have no heirs.

Sonu Shamdasani, a historian from London, for three years tried to persuade Jung's heirs to have it published, to which they declined every hint of inquiry.

However, Baldwin II also thought that he would have to marry Melisende to a powerful ally, one who would protect and safeguard Melisende's inheritance as Queen and her future heirs.

Universal scrambled to appear responsive: a spokesman told a UCLA Daily Bruin reporter that the studio was " delighted " by the interest, and that " we have negotiated with the heirs of the writers ( Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman ), but they were asking much more than we wanted to spend.

The Duke of York was the heir-general of Edward III, and the heir presumptive ( due to agnatic descent ) of Henry's grandson Henry VI ( since Henry IV's other sons did not have male heirs, and the legitimated Beauforts were excluded from the throne ).

However, other European powers compelled him to renounce the pact he had made with the Dowager Queen of Spain, Elisabeth Farnese, as the marriage of heirs to the thrones of Spain and Austria would have destroyed the European balance of power.

Of all the humans who have ever lived, it is said that the Prophet Muhammad possessed the greatest amount of barakah and that he passed this to his male heirs through his daughter Fatima.

The marriage to a Frankish princess who had her own royal lineage could have produced heirs more throne-worthy than Æthelbald.