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Wulfhere or
Wulfar (died 675) was King of
Mercia from 658
until 675 AD. He was the
first Christian king of all of Mercia,
though it is not
known when or...
- son of
Penda of
Mercia and came to the
throne in 675, when his brother,
Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an illness.
Within a year of his
accession he invaded...
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Wulfhere (died c. 900) was
Archbishop of York
between 854 and 900.
Wulfhere was
consecrated in 854. In 866 the
viking Great Heathen Army
attacked and...
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Wulfhere (fl. AD 855-?877) was
Ealdorman for Wiltshire, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, of England, were
experiencing turbulent times. An
invading Danish...
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Surrey and Berkshire.
Wulfhere's defeat at the
hands of
Ecgfrith in 674
freed the
southern kingdoms from
Mercian control, and
Wulfhere was
defeated the following...
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Chlothar III, is
proclaimed king of
Austrasia by the
Austrasian nobles. King
Wulfhere of
Mercia dies
after a 17-year reign, in
which he has
extended his sway...
- 872: "The
Northumbrians expelled their king Egbert, and
their Archbishop Wulfhere". Finally, Ecgberht's
death is
reported in 873, and it is said that Ricsige...
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militarily active than
Wulfhere had been
along the
frontier with Wes****,
though the West
Saxons did not
recover the
territorial gains Wulfhere had made. To the...
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Northumbrian domination and
resulted in the
appearance of
another son of Penda,
Wulfhere, who
ruled Mercia as an
independent kingdom (though he
apparently continued...
- of age,
would have left
behind children who were
still young (his son
Wulfhere was
still just a
youth three years after Penda's death,
according to Bede)...
