The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him was his half-brother, Harold Harefoot, who took over from his father, Cnut.
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The Story Of Athelstan, The Unlikely Ruler Who Became The First King Of EnglandAnd as a young man, he sat at the elbow of his powerful paternal aunt, Æthelflæd, who ruled over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of ...
My column this month is on one of the least-known ‘great sites’ of all: Offa’s Dyke, the linear earthwork that stretches ...
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A 1,200-Year-Old British Cave Dwelling Is Believed To Have Been The Ancient Lair Of An Exiled KingArchaeologists identified a British cave dwelling as the refuge for an exiled Anglo-Saxon king in 2021. Before then, Anchor Church Caves was considered to be an extravagant building that had been ...
More about her below. Photo: Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images By Her Hand follows the story of Freda, a farm girl in the tenth-century English kingdom of Mercia. After her home is ...
King of Mercia, recognised. There is evidence that, in about 780, he ordered the building of a dyke from sea to sea. Offa's Dyke, the most remarkable monument constructed in Britain in the second ...
in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut across an uninhabited heath fringed by forest in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Possibly they were ...
Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army ... She also married the most powerful noble of Mercia, Ethelred. Anglo-Saxons were not all equal. Click on the people at this feast below ...
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