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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...
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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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Northumbrian domination and
resulted in the
appearance of
another son of Penda,
Wulfhere, who
ruled Mercia as an
independent kingdom (though he
apparently continued...
- 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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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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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...
- In 675, Æscwine
defeated an
invasion of Wes**** led by the
Mercian King
Wulfhere at Biedanheafde, a
location which has not been
certainly identified. Æscwine...
- 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...
