- Beorhtwulf's reign.
Beorhtfrith appears in
later sources which describe his
murder of Wigstan, the
grandson of Wiglaf, in a
dispute over
Beorhtfrith's plan to marry...
-
became king instead.
William of
Malmesbury claims that Beorhtwulf's son,
Beorhtfrith,
wished to
marry Wigstan's
widowed mother, Ælfflæd, but
Wigstan forbade...
- Ælfflæd was
first married to Wigmund, son of King Wiglaf, and then to
Beorhtfrith, son of King Beorhtwulf. Far from
being "an
unwise king's thane", it...
- of Wigstan.
Usurped the
kingship and
forced Ælfflæd to
marry his son,
Beorhtfrith. 852
Burgred 852–874
Conjectured kinsman of Beorhtwulf. Fled to Rome...
- St Wystan, who was
murdered by
Beorhtfrith, the son of Beorhtwulf, king of Mercia,
after Wystan objected to
Beorhtfrith's plan to
marry Wystan's mother...
-
control of what is now Devon; he
establishes a
fortress at Taunton.
Beorhtfrith fights against the
Picts between Haefe and
Caere (****umed to be between...
- Manaw. The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle gives the year as 710,
saying that "
Beorhtfrith the
ealdorman fought against the
Picts between Haefe and Caere". This...
-
chased the
Britons into the sea. 710: (... and in the same year
ealdorman Beorhtfrith fought against Picts between [the rivers] Avon and
Carron [which flow...
- 849 by
another prince,
Beorhtfrith, in
retaliation for Wigstan's
opposition to his own mother, Ælflædd,
marrying Beorhtfrith's father, the new king Beorhtwulf...
-
control of what is now Devon; he
establishes a
fortress at Taunton.
Beorhtfrith fights against the
Picts between Haefe and
Caere (****umed to be between...
