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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Wulfhere (fl. AD 855-?877) was Ealdorman for Wiltshire, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, of England, were experiencing turbulent times. An invading Danish...
- 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...
- resolved the crisis. Oswiu's kinsman Trumhere was named to be Wulfhere's bishop. While Wulfhere extended Mercian influence and authority in southern Britain...
- 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)...
- Northumbrian domination and resulted in the appearance of another son of Penda, Wulfhere, who ruled Mercia as an independent kingdom (though he apparently continued...