John Cannon's The Kings and Queens of Britain (Oxford Paperback Reference) PDF

By John Cannon

ISBN-10: 0192800957

ISBN-13: 9780192800954

This fresh dictionary offers a close background of the kings and queens of england, starting from legendary and early pre-conquest rulers to the current apartment of Windsor. protecting English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in sections, through areas for pre-1066 monarchs (Romano-British rulers, Viking York), after which by means of royal traces (Tudors, Hanoverian). From King Arthur to Queen Victoria, Owain Glyn Dwr to Vortigern, the dictionary offers complete insurance of the rulers, their regnal dates, guidelines, characters, and the jobs they performed in shaping historical past.

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590, but was betrayed and slain. Urien was praised by the bard Taliesin as warrior and protector, but after his death Rheged slowly disappeared; a descendant Rienmelth (or Rhiainmelt) became the wife of Oswiu of Bernicia, which might have facilitated the takeover. Through Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory, Urien was introduced into Arthurian legend, and transposed to south Wales. Aethelfrith, son of Aethelric, became king of Bernicia in 593 and added the neighbouring kingdom of Deira. His ®rst wife was Bebba; the second was Acha, daughter of Aelle, king of Deira, by whom he had seven sons and a daughter, Aebbe, who founded the monastery at Coldingham.

The following year he was reported to be campaigning against Cenwulf of Mercia. 808±10. The British Museum has coins from his reign. 806 but died within two years. His ancestry has not been identi®ed and no coins from his reign have been found. 840. Though his reign of about thirty-two years is the longest in Northumbrian or Bernician history, little is recorded, save his submission to Ecgberht of Wessex in 829. This suggests that the kingdom had ceased to play a major role in English affairs. Many coins from his reign have survived.

His ancestry is unknown, and his reign short but eventful. In 825 he fought Ecgberht of Wessex at Ellendun, near Swindon, and was badly beaten. This induced the smaller kingdoms of the south-east to throw off Mercian domination and ally with Wessex. To bring them to heel, Beornwulf advanced against the East Anglians, but was killed. Ludeca.

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