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East and Saxon
The first recorded king, according to the East Saxon King List, was Æscwine to which a date of AD 527 is given for the start of his reign, although there are some difficulties with the date of his reign, and Sledda is listed as the founder of the Essex royal house by other sources.
Wine ( in 666 ) and Erkenwald ( in 675 ) were appointed bishops of London with spiritual authority over the East Saxon Kingdom.
By the 6th century the majority of the modern county was part of the East Saxon kingdom.
*** East Frisian Low Saxon in East Frisia
As the eldest surviving son, Henry succeeded his father as Saxon duke in 912 and upon the death of King Conrad I of Germany was elected King of Germany ( East Francia ) in 919.
Although Mellitus fled, there does not seem to have been any serious persecution of Christians in the East Saxon kingdom.
The East Saxon see was not occupied again until Cedd was consecrated as bishop in about 654.
After the fall of Great Moravia, the rulers of the Bohemian duchy had to deal both with continuous raids by the Magyars and the forces of the Saxon duke and East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who had started several eastern campaigns into the adjacent lands of the Polabian Slavs, homeland of Wenceslaus ' mother.
In the Westphalian dialects of Low Saxon, in East Frisian Low Saxon and in the Saterland Frisian language, Saturday is called Satertag, also akin to Dutch Zaterdag, which has the same linguistic roots as the English word Saturday.
When in the 10th century Saxon kings ( of the Ottonian dynasty ) replaced the Frankish kings in East Francia ( the later Holy Roman Empire ), these kings proudly claimed descent from Widukind: Matilda, the wife of King Henry I, was apparently a great-great-great-granddaughter of Widukind.
In 936 Henry the Fowler, the first East Frankish king of the Saxon ducal Ottonian dynasty had died and was succeeded by his son Otto the Great.
Linguistic study has led to the conjecture that initially the complete poem was transmitted orally, then in a lost manuscript in the East Saxon dialect and now survives as a fragment in the West Saxon form, possibly that of a scribe active at the Monastery of Worcester
Three of Æthelbald's predecessors — Æthelred, Coenred, and Ceolred — had each confirmed an East Saxon charter granting Twickenham to Waldhere, the bishop of London.
The Saxon Shore Way starts at Gravesend, Kent and traces the Kent coast as it was in Roman times, via Folkestone, as far as Hastings, East Sussex, 163 miles ( 262 km ) in total.
The Saxon Rating System, or the East German ( GDR ) rating system as it was known before the unification of Germany, is used in all of the former East Germany.
* East Frisian Low Saxon: Freesland ;
# East Frisia or Eastern Friesland ( German Ostfriesland ; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfreesland ) in Lower Saxony
Many Frisians speak Low Saxon dialects, especially in East Frisia, but also in West and North Frisia.
A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults.

East and royal
It has been suggested that Beowulf was first composed in the 7th century at Rendlesham in East Anglia, as the Sutton Hoo ship-burial also shows close connections with Scandinavia, and also that the East Anglian royal dynasty, the Wuffings, were descendants of the Geatish Wulfings.
The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the East front which contains the well-known balcony on which the royal family traditionally congregates to greet crowds outside.
With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.
In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.
The first of these tells the mythological prehistory of the Norwegian royal dynasty, tracing Odin, described here as a mortal man, and his followers from the East, from Asaland and Asgard, its chief city, to their settlement in Scandinavia ( more precisely to east-central Sweden, according to Snorri ).
The original royal charters of the American colonies included broad grants of franchise jurisdiction along with other governmental powers to corporations or individuals, as did the charters for many other colonial companies such as the British East India Company and British South Africa Company.
Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.
The forest is a remnant of an older and much larger royal hunting forest, which derived its name from its status as the shire ( or sher ) wood of Nottinghamshire, which in fact extended into several neighbouring counties ( shires ), bordered on the west along the River Erewash and the Forest of East Derbyshire.
The king's overall income from his estates, however, declined seriously during the conflict, particularly after 1141, and royal control over the minting of new coins remained limited outside of the south-east and East Anglia.
The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae ( from, ) was a Greek Macedonian royal family, founded by Seleucus I Nicator (" the Victor "), which ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East and regions of the Asian part of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire during the Hellenistic period.
However, some of the bombed-out ruins of churches, royal buildings and palaces, such as the Gothic Sophienkirche, the Alberttheater and the Wackerbarth-Palais were razed by the Soviet and East German authorities in the 1950s and 1960s instead of being repaired.
The expulsion, which was not reversed until 1656, followed a precedent set by other European territorial princes: Philip II of France had expelled all Jews from his own lands in 1182 ; John I, Duke of Brittany, drove them out of his duchy in 1239 ; and in the late 1240s Louis IX of France had expelled the Jews from the royal demesne before his first passage to the East.
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK.
Asser recounts meeting Alfred first at the royal estate at Dean, Sussex ( now East and West Dean, West Sussex ).
The king's overall income from his estates, however, declined seriously during the conflict, particularly after 1141, and royal control over the minting of new coins remained limited outside of the south-east and East Anglia.
Among the past and present groups formed by royal charter are the British East India Company ( 1600 ), the Hudson's Bay Company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O ), the British South Africa Company, and some of the former British colonies on the North American mainland, also the Bank of England.
Holly Hill's beginnings date back to the early 19th century, when Governor Coppinger of Spanish East Florida gave a royal title of on the Halifax River to Fernando de la Maza Arrendonda.
Wishing to increase the prestige of the image of France and the French royal family, Colbert played an active role in bringing the great Italian architect-sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Paris ( June – October 1665 ), in order to design the new East Facade of the Louvre and sculpt a marble portrait bust of Louis XIV.
He accordingly became a syndic or director of the French East India Company, around which a fierce political debate revolved in the 1760s, between the company's directors and shareholders and the royal ministry over the administration and the company's autonomy.
This temple was identified in Nagarakretagama as Palah temple and reported being visited by King Hayam Wuruk during his royal tour across East Java.
Supported by gentry and nobility in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, Mary's military camp was gathering strength daily and, through luck, came into possession of powerful artillery from the royal navy.
The king and members of the royal family have represented Spain in Europe, Latin America, in the United States and in Canada, nations in the Middle East and North Africa, in China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and many countries in sub-Sahara Africa.

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