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King Offa of Mercia adopted the Frankish silver standard of libra, solidi and denarii ; although for centuries English coinage was restricted to the silver penny the scilling, understood to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere, was a 12d money of account like its French equivalent, until the Tudors minted the first shilling coins.
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" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.
In 771 King Offa of Mercia invaded Southern England, and over the next decade gradually seized control of Sussex and Kent.
Another abbey was founded by King Offa of Mercia in 793.
In 787 Adrian elevated the English diocese of Lichfield to an archdiocese at the request of the English bishops and King Offa of Mercia to balance the ecclesiastic power in that land between Kent and Mercia.
Silver pennies, based on the Roman Denarius, became the staple coin of Britain around the time of King Offa, circa AD 796, and similar coins, including Italian denari, French deniers, and Spanish dineros circulated throughout Europe.
It is generally accepted that much of the earthwork can be attributed to Offa, King of Mercia from 757 to 796.
From a very early date, British coins have been inscribed with the name of the ruler of the kingdom in which they were produced, and a longer or shorter title, always in Latin ; among the earliest distinctive English coins are the silver pennies of Offa of Mercia, which were inscribed with the legend " King Offa ".
The construction of the earthwork known as Offa's Dyke ( usually attributed to Offa, King of Mercia in the 8th century ) may have marked an agreed border.
Offa was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796.
In 794, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, " King Offa ordered King Æthelberht's head to be struck off ".
In 765 and 770 grants are made by a King Osmund, the later of which was later confirmed by Offa of Mercia.
Bedford was a market town for the surrounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon King Offa of Mercia was buried in the town in 796.
* 781 Council of Brentford recording settlement of a dispute between King Offa of Mercia, and the Bishop of Worcester
Harmondsworth was originally a parish, with the name first recorded in AD 780 when King Offa granted land to his servant Aeldred.
In 790 King Offa of Mercia was recorded as giving the lands of Edmonton to St Albans Abbey.
Much of the long route either follows, or keeps close company with, the remnants of Offa's Dyke, an 8th century earthwork, the majority of which was probably constructed on the orders of Mercian King Offa.
During the reign of King Offa of Mercia, whose rule extended to Essex in the late 8th century, a building of Barnack stone was constructed around the earlier wooden church.
In this charter, King Offa II, King of Mercia, granted land to Bishop Oswald to build a church.
This early history can still be seen in street names, with Sackville Road, Buckhurst Road, De La Warr Parade, and King Offa Way being some of the most significant roads in the town.
For these elections, Bexhill is divided into three wards: West, King Offa, and East .< REF NAME = ELECTION >
and in the reign of King Offa, was the capital of Mercia the largest of all English kingdoms of its time ( see Heptarchy ).
In 786 Offa, King of Mercia, raised Lichfield to the dignity of an archbishopric, with authority over all the bishops from the Humber to the Thames.
King and Mercia
They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".
The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.
* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
Their next target was Mercia where King Burgred, aided by his brother-in-law King Æthelred of Wessex, drove them off.
The South Saxons were first evangelised extensively under Anglian influence ; Aethelwalh of Sussex was converted by Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and allowed Wilfrid, Archbishop of York, to evangelise his people beginning in 681.
Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, were buried in the priory, and their nephew, King Æthelstan, was a major patron of Oswald's cult.
Cynegils's godfather was King Oswald of Northumbria and his conversion may have been connected with an alliance against King Penda of Mercia, who had previously attacked Wessex.
In 825 or 826 he overturned the political order of England by decisively defeating King Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellendun and seizing control of Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Essex from the Mercians, while with his help East Anglia broke away from Mercian control.
In 829 he conquered Mercia, driving its King Wiglaf into exile, and secured acknowledgment of his overlordship from the king of Northumbria.
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.
After the death of King Eadred in 955, England was divided between his two sons, with the elder Edwy ruling in Wessex while Mercia passed to his younger brother Edgar.
* Pybba of Mercia, King of Mercia
* Coenwulf of Mercia invades Kent, deposes and imprisons King Eadbert Praen, and makes his own brother Cuthred king.
* Wiglaf, King of Mercia
* King Æthelbald becomes King of Mercia.
King and adopted
Following his campaign, he adopted the title of " King of Galicia and Lodomeria " referring to his supremacy over the two neighbouring principalities.
Though the King James Version ( KJV ) was always commonly used, it was officially adopted in the 1950s when J. Reuben Clark, of the First Presidency, argued extensively that newer translations, such as Revised Standard Version of 1952, were of lower quality and less compatible with LDS tradition.
Allen and a troop of Boys traveled to Westminster where, under Allen's influence, the town's convention adopted a strongly worded resolution authorizing the drafting of a plea to the King to remove them " out of so oppressive a jurisdiction ".
It was only in the constitution of 1812 that the name " Españas " for the Spanish kingdom and the use of the title of " King of the Spains " were officially adopted.
The constitution of 1876 adopted for the first time the name " España " (" Spain ") for the Spanish nation, and from then on monarchs used the title of " King of Spain ".
He adopted the title " King of Arab Palestine ", much to the disgust of most other Arab states.
He adopted the title padshah durr-i dawran (' King, " pearl of the age ") and the Abdali tribe became known as the Durrani tribe after this.
At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864.
The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542, and in the Royal Standard of King James ( VI of Scotland / I of England ) in 1603 and continued to feature on all English and United Kingdom Royal Standards ever since, though the styles of the harps depicted differed in some respects.
In January 1387, Elizabeth was strangled, while Mary was released in July of the same year, by the effort of future Frankopan family and Jadwiga's adopted maternal uncle King Tvrtko of Bosnia.
Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.
He is now remembered as a national hero on a par with King Arthur and numerous small groups have adopted his symbolism to advocate independence or nationalism for Wales.
After taking the town, he banished the Lombard king to the Abbey of Corbie in France, and adopted the title " King of the Lombards " himself.
The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military.
In 1682, the King convoked an assembly of the French clergy which adopted the four articles that became known as the Gallican Liberties.
Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or
" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.
* April 6 – first New Year's Day of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch ( reference date ).
Milan surrendered to the Franks in 774 when Charlemagne, in an utterly novel decision, took the title " King of the Lombards " as well ( before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people ).
On 2 November Bernadotte made his solemn entry into Stockholm, and on 5 November he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted by King Charles XIII under the name of " Charles John " ( Karl Johan ).
The King of the Kongo soon converted to Christianity, and adopted a similar political structure to the Europeans ; he became a well-known figure in Europe, to the point of receiving missives from the Pope himself.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy consequently adopted the title of " Emperor of Abyssinia ".
He was regarded as one of the national saints of England until King Edward III adopted Saint George as patron saint in about 1350.
The King adopted the following style by which he would be known in all of his Empire: By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
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