• Centwine (died after 685) was King of Wessex from c. 676 to 685 or 686, although he was perhaps not the only king of the West Saxons at the time. The Anglo-Saxon...
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  • of Wessex led by the Mercian King Wulfhere at Biedanheafde, a location which has not been certainly identified. Æscwine was succeeded by Centwine of Wessex...
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    King Centwine was a son of Cynegils, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that this identification was a later invention. House of Wessex family...
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    throne passed back to the immediate family of Cenwealh with the accession of his brother Centwine of Wessex. Centwine is known to have fought and won battles...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List as King of Wessex for five to six years around 592 to 597 (the Chronicle) or 588 to 594...
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    the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688. His name is derived from the Welsh Cadwallon. He was exiled from Wessex as a youth...
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    list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details of the...
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    Ini, (died in or after 726) was King of Wessex from 689 to 726. At Ine's accession, his kingdom dominated much of what is now southern England. However...
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  • Cenwalh, also Cenwealh or Coenwalh, was King of Wessex from c. 642 to c. 645 and from c. 648 until his death, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,...
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    often came into conflict with the expanding English kingdom of Wessex. Centwine of Wessex "drove the Britons as far as the sea" in 682, and by 690 St...
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    army and forcing the Anglo-Saxons to withdraw south of the River Forth. King Centwine of Wessex dies after a 9-year reign and is succeeded by his distant...
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  • daughter of Centwine of Wessex Edith of Wilton, English nun, a daughter of Edgar the Peaceful Edmund of Scotland, son of Malcolm III of Scotland Elgiva of Wessex...
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  • reported as the viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex (reigned c. 676–686). Cissa is sometimes said to have himself been a king of Wessex, but does not feature...
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    in Suffolk. She was one of the four saintly daughters of Anna of East Anglia, including Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, all of whom eventually retired from...
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    is regarded as the patron saint of boundaries, and by extension, of trade and travel, as well as various aspects of farming. His feast day is celebrated...
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  • consorts of Wessex were the wives of the reigning monarchs of the Kingdom of Wessex. History has not always recorded whether each king of Wessex was married...
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    of the bishops in West Kent), and ravage the surrounding countryside. King Æscwine of Wessex dies after a 2-year reign, and is succeeded by Centwine,...
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  • of Bicester, an English saint from the 7th century Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet (died 751), royal princess, the only daughter of King Centwine and...
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    Edward the Martyr (category House of Wessex)
    of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex, but in that year the West Saxons achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Edington...
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    Aldeberge (c. 565 – d. in or after 601) was the queen of Kent whose influence led to the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England. She was canonized as a saint...
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    until 681–685, when Centwine of Wessex defeated King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd and his local allies, allowing them to occupy the rest of Somerset west and north...
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    realm, the Kingdom of Sussex, to Christianity. First Bishop of Worcester (Episcopus Hwicciorum, Bosel) consecrated. 681 Centwine of Wessex pursues the Britons...
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    Cædwalla of Wessex becomes overly ambitious in a power-struggle with his rival, King Centwine, for Wessex overlordship. He is banished into the forests of Chiltern...
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  • during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman...
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  • Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's in Canterbury. He was a noted teacher and commentator of the Bible. Adrian was born between...
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    Welsh abbot and supposed bishop in Somerset, then in the British kingdom of Somerset, now in England. Congar grew up in Pembrokeshire and travelled across...
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  • Cædwalla of Wessex becomes overly ambitious in a power-struggle with his rival, King Centwine, for Wessex overlordship. He is banished into the forests of Chiltern...
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    Quantock Hills (category Lists of coordinates)
    681–685 AD, when Centwine of Wessex pushed west from the River Parrett, conquered the Welsh King Cadwaladr, and occupied the rest of Somerset north to...
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    now Devon as a result of a battle fought at Postesburh, possibly Posbury near Crediton. Then in the period 681–85 Centwine of Wessex conquered King Cadwaladr...
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  • century Cissa (West Saxon), possibly viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex Other Cissa (bird), a genus of magpies This disambiguation page lists articles...
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