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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 (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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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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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...
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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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resolved the crisis. Oswiu's
kinsman Trumhere was
named to be
Wulfhere's bishop.
While Wulfhere extended Mercian influence and
authority in
southern Britain...
- to 876. He
became king
after Ecgberht I was
overthrown and fled, with
Wulfhere,
Archbishop of York, to Mercia. In 872,
Northumbria rebelled against the...
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Mercian elites that put Penda's
Christian son
Wulfhere on the
throne who
ruled from 658 to 675.
Wulfhere oversaw the
conversion of
Mercia and some of the...
