Athelstan achieved a decisive victory for Wessex at Brunanburgh in 937, when a coalition of Irish, Norse, Scots and Northumbrians were defeated. |
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In 875, Alfred went to sea with a small naval force and on the south coast of Wessex met 7 Viking longships and defeated them. |
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The plan is that one day the Wilts and Berks canal will allow boats to cruise what is known as the Wessex Waterway Network. |
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Wessex Water spokesman Ian Martin said the smell had been coming from sewers and road gulleys in the village. |
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People living in Wessex Gardens fear the school building proposed for an elevated position on a tall embankment will totally overwhelm them. |
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From nearly 50 years of complex warfare the house of Wessex had emerged triumphant. |
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The Danes have left Wessex, and have set up in Lundenwic, and have sworn on their most sacred talismans to leave us. |
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The witenagemot chose Harold, earl of Wessex, although his only claim to the throne was his availability. |
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Wilfrid was spokesman for the visiting Frankish bishop Agilbert from Wessex, and his priest Agatho, main advocates for Rome. |
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Sonja of Norway were accompanied by Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and the Earl of Wessex. |
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The last act of the witenagemot in England was to choose Harold, Earl of Wessex, as King in 1066, a fatal choice. |
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The contact between Cretaceous Chalk and Palaeogene siliciclastic sediments is a megasequence boundary within the fill of the Wessex Basin. |
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The English were in the overall command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, a gentleman from Wessex. |
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The Earl and Countess of Wessex are also expected today and tomorrow, while the Princess Royal is due at York Racecourse on Thursday and Friday. |
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The Jutes settled in Kent, the Saxons in Essex, Sussex, Middlesex and Wessex, and the Angles everywhere else. |
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Quite simply, the depredations of the Danes aided Wessex by extinguishing all other royal lineages. |
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A spokeswoman for Wessex Water said there was no choice but to pump diluted sewage into rivers. |
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He defended the Kingdom of Wessex from Viking raids and in 878 he defeated the Danes in the Battle of Ethandune near Westbury. |
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Within the Wessex Formation there are two beds of potential stratigraphic significance. |
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John also played the euphonium and the tuba with the Wiltshire Constabulary's band and the Wessex Wind Band. |
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Situated on a spur on the western edge of the Wessex downs, Eggardon overlooks undulating valley land. |
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In Anglo-Saxon times Wessex was a large kingdom of the West Saxons covering the present counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire. |
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Parts of the area were fenced off for weeks while Wessex Water laid the main. |
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Guthrum's coins bore his English baptismal name, while other coins minted in East Anglia were copies of the coins of Alfred of Wessex. |
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In the later 9th cent., after the struggle between Alfred and the Danes, the region became part of Wessex. |
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It is somewhat ironic that the last great monument of the house of Wessex was mainly a product of Norman culture. |
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A golden wyvern was featured on the flag of King Harold of Wessex and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. |
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By the autumn of 880 the Danes had left Wessex and western Mercia, and had begun the systematic settlement of East Anglia. |
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Wessex replaced the sigil within the drawer, beside another ring. |
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The Royal visit by the Earl and countess of Wessex to the territory raised tensions in Spain. |
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King Alfred of Wessex repelled the attacks and laid the foundations for a kingdom that would become known as England. |
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At no time during the shoot was Viscount Severn directly in front of the Earl of Wessex. |
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The deposition of Palaeogene siliciclastic shelf strata in the Wessex Basin cannot be interpreted exclusively in terms of fluctuations in relative sea level. |
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The earl and countess arrived in Devizes from two earlier engagements in Wiltshire, a visit to the Wessex MS Therapy Centre in Warminster and another engagement in Westbury. |
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Also present were Andrew and his daughter Princess Beatrice, and the Earl and countess of Wessex. |
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Groups of round burial mounds known to archaeologists as barrow cemeteries, often aligned on contours below ridges, are common in Wessex and the Thames valley. |
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The old plunge pool came to light when the Wessex Archaeology team was excavating what was believed to be a hidden boathouse where the edge of the lake had been. |
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His position once secured, his conduct in all the kingdoms except Northumbria and Wessex seems to have been more that of a direct ruler than a remote overlord. |
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Wessex Windpower is expected to submit a planning application within the next few months to build anemometry masts to measure wind speeds and direction in the borough. |
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Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex. |
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The winterbournes were flowing from the chalk uplands of Wessex. |
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In ten years, the Danes had gained control over East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia, leaving just Wessex resisting. |
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Guthrum and the Danes brokered peace with Wessex in 876, when they captured the fortresses of Wareham and Exeter. |
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The Danes now controlled East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia, with only Wessex continuing to resist. |
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However, they stopped during their march to capture a small fortress at Countisbury Hill, held by a Wessex ealdorman named Odda. |
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She is succeeded by her brother, the Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex united in the person of King Edward. |
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By 878, the Vikings had overrun East Anglia, Northumbria, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex. |
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Alfred was captured by Godwin, Earl of Wessex who turned him over to Harold Harefoot. |
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Godwin himself died in 1053 and although Harold succeeded to his earldom of Wessex, none of his other brothers were earls at this date. |
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Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats. |
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One story implicates Earl Godwin of Wessex in Alfred's subsequent death, but others blame Harold. |
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The British Royal Family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of Wessex. |
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The English had been unified under a single nation state in 937 by King Athelstan of Wessex after the Battle of Brunanburh. |
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The Wessex project, in the 1980s, attempted to standardise IT systems across a regional health authority. |
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The region includes the West Country and much of the ancient kingdom of Wessex. |
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Sweyn ruled Wessex, along with his other realms, from 1013 onwards, followed by his son Canute the Great. |
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Ultimately, the Danes lost control of Wessex in 1042 on the death of both of Canute's sons. |
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Wessex and Mercia gradually established an occasionally unstable alliance, with Wessex gaining the upper hand. |
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The Wessex royal line was traditionally founded by a man named Cerdic, an undoubtedly Celtic name ultimately derived from Caratacus. |
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Sometime around 800, a Reeve from Portland in Wessex was killed when he mistook some raiders for ordinary traders. |
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From that point on there was no contest for the throne, so the house of Wessex became the ruling house of England. |
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Following Cnut's reforms, excessive power was concentrated in the hands of the rival houses of Leofric of Mercia and Godwine of Wessex. |
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In 917, when armies from Wessex and Mercia were in the field from early April until November, one division went home and another took over. |
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The Saxons of the Kingdom of Wessex in particular were expanding their territory westwards towards Cornwall. |
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The area controlled by the southwestern Britons was progressively reduced by the expansion of Wessex over the next few centuries. |
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A coinage commemorating Edmund was minted from around the time East Anglia was absorbed by the kingdom of Wessex and a popular cult emerged. |
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Shortly afterwards Wilfrid was ordained a priest by Agilbert, Bishop of Dorchester in the kingdom of the Gewisse, part of Wessex. |
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Wilfrid may also have taken part in negotiations to persuade King Cenwalh of Wessex to allow Agilbert to return to his see. |
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The open court of Wessex Fives, built in 1787, is still in existence at Warminster School although it has fallen out of regular use. |
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Wessex Bath and the Faresaver Bus company also operate numerous services to surrounding towns. |
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There are six major manuscripts of the Wessex Gospels, dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. |
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Wessex had been the name of an early Saxon kingdom, in approximately the same part of England. |
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In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. |
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Instead, he wrote an orchestral piece Egdon Heath, inspired by Thomas Hardy's Wessex. |
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In November 2010, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and John Perry, Fred Perry's grandson, opened Fred Perry House in Stockport. |
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Later in Edward's reign, and in that of Athelstan, the kings of Wessex did extend their power far north. |
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Ultimately the Danes capitulated, and their leader Guthrum agreed to withdraw from Wessex and to be baptised. |
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Consequently, the death of a Wessex king would be followed by rebellion, particularly in Northumbria. |
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By the 980s the kings of Wessex had a powerful grip on the coinage of the realm. |
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Edward was supported by Earl Godwin of Wessex and married the earl's daughter. |
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Pottery found here is of the grooved ware style which is found across Britain as far away as Wessex. |
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Alexander was the fifth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor. |
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He was probably the eighth son of King Malcolm III, and certainly the sixth and youngest born by Malcolm's second wife, Margaret of Wessex. |
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Further excavations were carried out in 2008 by Wessex Archaeology and was featured in the Channel 4 TV programme Time Team. |
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Wihtred of Kent died in 725, and Ine of Wessex, one of the most formidable rulers of his day, abdicated in 726 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. |
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Whatever power she had in Wessex was no doubt connected with her father's overlordship. |
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To contemporaries these were probably known as pennies, and are the coins referred to in the laws of Ine of Wessex. |
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After that alliance proved unsatisfactory, he came to an agreement with Alfred the Great of Wessex, visiting Alfred at his court. |
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On the back of the shirt, DS Smith appear on the top while on the bottom are Capital Law and Wessex Garages Nissan. |
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They wreaked havoc in Northumbria and Mercia and the rest of Anglia before being halted by Wessex. |
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For the first few years of his reign he had to face two strong rival kings, Wihtred of Kent and Ine of Wessex. |
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Other providers are Abus, Stagecoach West, Stagecoach South West and Wessex Bus. |
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Wessex gradually expanded westwards into Brythonic Dorset and Somerset in the seventh century. |
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No king of Wessex was to venture so far east until Egbert, over a hundred years later. |
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FitzOsbern was created Earl of Wessex, a title which his son did not inherit. |
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However, by the end of the 7th century Dorset had fallen under Saxon control and been incorporated into the Kingdom of Wessex. |
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At a later period Cornwall came under Wessex influence, which appears to become more extensive after the time of Athelstan in the 10th century. |
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The club remained in the Hampshire league until 1986 when they joined the Wessex League on its formation. |
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George's Park is the home of Newport Football Club, the most successful of the Island's football teams, currently playing in the Wessex League. |
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Great Western Railway operate trains via Southampton, Salisbury and Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central, via the Wessex Main Line. |
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The Kingdom of Sussex was absorbed into Wessex as an earldom and became the county of Sussex. |
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This manuscript was written in Wessex between about 892 and 925, possibly at Winchester. |
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There is no account of Ohthere's journey to Wessex or explanation for his visit to King Alfred. |
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The poet Thomas Chatterton popularised a derivation from Brictricstow linking the town to Brictric, the last king of Wessex. |
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Egbert of Wessex was another refugee from Offa who took shelter at the Frankish court. |
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Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England. |
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In the early 9th century Mercia was displaced as the foremost kingdom by Wessex. |
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This alliance later broke down and Anarawd came to an agreement with Alfred, king of Wessex, with whom he fought against the west Welsh. |
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Then in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, the kings of Wessex defeated the Danes and liberated the Angles from the Danelaw. |
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The kings of Wessex became increasingly dominant over the other kingdoms of England during the 9th century. |
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In 827, Northumbria submitted to Egbert of Wessex at Dore, briefly making Egbert the first king to reign over a united England. |
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The portion of Mercia that was successfully defended, and all of Kent, were then integrated into Wessex under Alfred the Great. |
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Under the leadership of Alfred the Great and his descendants, Wessex would at first survive, then coexist with, and eventually conquer the Danes. |
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The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. |
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It is generally agreed that the original version was written in the late 9th century by a scribe in Wessex. |
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By the end of 1070, Malcolm had married Edgar's sister Margaret of Wessex, the future Saint Margaret of Scotland. |
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During the period of the reigns from Egbert to Alfred the Great, the kings of Wessex emerged as Bretwalda, unifying the country. |
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The Germanic gods Woden, Frigg, Tiw and Thunor, who are attested to in every Germanic tradition, were worshipped in Wessex, Sussex and Essex. |
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In either 1068 or 1070, the king married the exiled Princess Margaret of Wessex. |
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In 830, Wiglaf regained independence for Mercia, but by this time Wessex was clearly the dominant power in England. |
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In 852, Burgred came to the throne and with Ethelwulf of Wessex subjugated North Wales. |
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The most credible source for the idea of a contemporary Mercia is Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. |
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The first of these appeared in 1874 and Hardy himself considered it the origin of the conceit of a contemporary Wessex. |
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During the 8th century, as the hegemony of Mercia grew, Wessex largely retained its independence. |
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Wessex was invaded by the Danes in 871, and Alfred was compelled to pay them to leave. |
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The battle appears to have ended as a draw, and the expansion of Wessex ended for about thirty years. |
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In time this would deprive Wessex of its territories north of the Thames and the Avon, encouraging the kingdom's reorientation southwards. |
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During this period Wessex continued its gradual advance to the west, overwhelming the British kingdom of Dumnonia. |
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Egbert's later years saw the beginning of Danish Viking raids on Wessex, which occurred frequently from 835 onwards. |
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This victory postponed Danish conquests in England for fifteen years, but raids on Wessex continued. |
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The rampaging Viking army on the continent encouraged Alfred to protect his Kingdom of Wessex. |
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The Kingdom of Wessex had thus been transformed into the Kingdom of England. |
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Finally, on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, Harold became king, reuniting the earldom of Wessex with the crown. |
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Nevertheless, the association with Wessex was only popularised in the 19th century, most notably through the writings of E A Freeman. |
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The ITV television series Broadchurch takes place in Wessex and its characters are seen attending South Wessex Secondary School. |
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In the early tenth century, the East Anglian Danes came under increasing pressure from Edward the Elder, king of Wessex. |
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The last king of Essex was Sigered and in 825, he ceded the kingdom to Egbert of Wessex. |
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A genealogy of the Essex royal house was prepared in Wessex in the 9th century. |
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To the west, Bede describes the boundary with the Kingdom of Wessex as being opposite the Isle of Wight, and which later fell on the River Ems. |
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After 491 the written history of Sussex goes blank until 607, when the annals report that Ceolwulf of Wessex fought against the South Saxons. |
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Threatened by Wessex, the South Saxons sought to secure their independence by alliance with Mercia. |
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Victorian writers later interpreted this as an anticipatory coronation in preparation for his eventual succession to the throne of Wessex. |
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With all the other kingdoms having fallen to the Vikings, Wessex alone was still resisting. |
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Alfred undertook no systematic reform of ecclesiastical institutions or religious practices in Wessex. |
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In 875 the Great Heathen Army split into two bands, with Guthrum leading one back to Wessex, and Hafdan taking his followers north. |
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Part of Mercia and all of Kent were successfully defended but were then integrated into Wessex. |
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The language of these texts nonetheless sometimes reflects the influence of other dialects besides that of Wessex. |
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Originally it was the see of the kingdom of Wessex, with the cathedra at Dorchester Cathedral under Saints Birinus and Agilbert. |
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Alternatively, they may be skeuomorphs of earlier timber circle sites rebuilt in stone, especially the examples in Wessex. |
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Before the Norman Conquest, Bowland was held by Tostig, son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex. |
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Sites such as Stonehenge also provide evidence of activity from the later Bronze Age Wessex culture. |
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Restauranteur Rana also met the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Wessex, and the Duke of Kent. |
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Luxury lodge manufacturer Wessex Park and Leisure Homes is to unveil a new, innovative leisure lodge there, called The Spinny. |
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Jack Myall, 19, was presented with the award at St James' Palace by the Earl of Wessex. |
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Now she has smashed club and Wessex National Sea Federation records with a corkwing wrasse that scaled a fraction over 11oz. |
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The last Earl of Wessex was the luckless King Harold, the cyclopic monarch who came out second best at the Battle of Hastings. |
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Vice Admiral Peter Wilkinson from Seafarers UK sent the invitation on behalf of the president, HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. |
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It is also a reference to the Wessex Dragon, a symbol of the Saxon Kingdom which Dorset once belonged to, and the gold wreath featured on the badge of the Dorset Regiment. |
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Hampshire's county town is Winchester, a historic city that was once the capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex and of England until the Norman conquest of England. |
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This future Saint Margaret of Scotland was a member of the royal House of Wessex which had occupied the English throne from its founding until the Norman Conquest. |
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Charles married for the second time in 919 to Eadgifu of Wessex. |
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Parts of the historic county of Devon formed part of the diocese of Wessex, while nothing is known of the church organisation of the Celtic areas. |
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Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats and son of Godwin, Edward's earlier opponent. |
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Either Offa or Ine of Wessex is traditionally supposed to have founded the Schola Saxonum in Rome, in what is today the Roman rione, or district, of Borgo. |
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The rich Wessex culture developed in southern Britain at this time. |
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The ascendency of the Mercians came to an end in 825, when they were soundly beaten under Beornwulf at the Battle of Ellendun by Egbert of Wessex. |
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In particular, Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, was inspired and encouraged in his struggle against the Danes by a vision or dream he had of Cuthbert. |
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Before then, it consisted of a number of petty kingdoms which gradually coalesced into a Heptarchy of seven powerful states, the most powerful of which were Mercia and Wessex. |
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Contemporary annals began to be kept in Wessex during the 7th century. |
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The decline of Mercia allowed Wessex to become more powerful. |
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The Wessex Main Line runs from Bristol to Salisbury and on to Southampton. |
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For example, Offa, king of Mercia, and Egbert, king of Wessex, are sometimes described as kings of England by popular writers, but not by all historians. |
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Through the educational reforms of King Alfred in the ninth century and the influence of the kingdom of Wessex, the West Saxon dialect became the standard written variety. |
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Further south, the Saxon kings of Wessex withstood the Danish assaults. |
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This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England. |
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Wessex under Alfred the Great was left as the only surviving English kingdom, and under his successors it steadily expanded at the expense of the kingdoms of the Danelaw. |
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Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England. |
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By the 1030s Cnut's direct administration of Wessex had come to an end, with the establishment of an earldom under Godwin, an Englishman from a powerful Sussex family. |
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Restoring religion and learning in Wessex, Abels contends, was to Alfred's mind as essential to the defence of his realm as the building of the burhs. |
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Within four years he had been succeeded by the indomitable Earldorman Aethelred, who secured an alliance with Alfred of Wessex by marrying the king's daughter, Aethelflaed. |
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After the Battle of Ellandun in 825 the South Saxons submitted to Ecgberht of Wessex, and from this time they remained subject to the West Saxon dynasty. |
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Mercian authority was replaced by that of Wessex in 825, following the latter's victory at the Battle of Ellandun, and the Mercian client king Baldred was expelled. |
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Sometime between 878 and 886, the territory was formally ceded by Wessex to the Danelaw kingdom of East Anglia, under the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. |
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After the defeat of the Mercian king Beornwulf around AD 825, Sigered, the last king of Essex, ceded the kingdom which then became a possession of the Wessex king Egbert. |
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In 878 the last portion of the Great Heathen Army to remain active was defeated by Alfred the Great and withdrew from Wessex after making a peace treaty. |
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A coat of arms was attributed by medieval heralds to the Kings of Wessex. |
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In the 1970s William Crampton, the founder of the British Flag Institute, designed a flag for the Wessex region which depicts a gold wyvern on a red field. |
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The reason for Ohthere's visit to King Alfred of Wessex is not recorded. |
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Within a few years, however, he had created an earldom of Wessex, encompassing all of England south of the Thames, for his English henchman Godwin. |
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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. |
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In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild. |
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At this time Wessex took de facto control over much of Devon, although Britons retained a degree of independence in Devon until at least the 10th century. |
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It was incorporated into Wessex as a shire and continued thereafter under the rule of the West Saxon kings, who eventually became kings of all of England. |
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During the 8th century Wessex was overshadowed by Mercia, whose power was then at its height, and the West Saxon kings may at times have acknowledged Mercian overlordship. |
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Winchester would eventually develop into the effective capital of Wessex. |
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Wessex Water, Future plc, Buro Happold and Rotork are in Bath. |
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The station was also served by Wessex Trains with one train a day to and from Penzance, as well as the services that are now run by their successor First Great Western. |
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The club has since remained in the Wessex League Premier Division. |
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The club competes in the Wessex League Premier Division and is affiliated to the Isle of Wight Football Association, which is a division of the Hampshire Football Association. |
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Luckily Ryde regained its place and slowly rebuilt, with the Division being renamed Division 2 in 1986 following the formation of the Wessex League. |
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