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Coenwulf (Old English: [ˈkøːnwuɫf]; also
spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph; Latin: Coenulfus) was the king of
Mercia from
December 796
until his death...
- He was the
brother of
Coenwulf, his predecessor, and was
deposed by Beornwulf.
William of
Malmesbury declared that,
after Cœnwulf: "the
kingdom of the...
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Coenwulf, Cenwulf, or Kenwulf, may
refer to: King
Coenwulf of
Mercia (died 821)
Bishop Coenwulf of
Dorchester (early 10th century)
Bishop Cenwulf of Winchester...
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Anarawd ap Rhodri, King (878–916)
Kingdom of East
Anglia (complete list) –
Cœnwulf, King (?–821), also King of Kent and of
Mercia Ceolwulf, King (821–823)...
- approval,
Cœnwulf reconquered Kent. He
placed his
brother in
charge and
captured Eadberht in 798.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
Cœnwulf "ravaged...
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Mercia or King
Coenwulf of Mercia. In its time, it was the
burial place of two
members of the
Mercian ruling class, the
aforementioned Coenwulf and his son...
- his cathedral. He also
quarrelled with two
consecutive Mercian kings –
Coenwulf and Ceolwulf – over
whether laymen or
clergy should control monasteries...
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succeeded him
after his death, but
reigned for less than five
months before Coenwulf of
Mercia became king.
Geoffrey Hill's
longform prose-poem
Mercian Hymns...
- His
reign lasted 141 days.
Ecgfrith was
succeeded by a
distant relative,
Coenwulf,
presumably because Offa had
arranged the
murder of
nearer relatives in...
- and the
kingdom p****ed to a
distant relative named Coenwulf in
December 796. In 821
Coenwulf's brother Ceolwulf succeeded to the
Mercian kingship; he...
