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Battle of Ellendun, the Glossary

The Battle of Ellendun or Battle of Wroughton was fought between Ecgberht of Wessex and Beornwulf of Mercia in September 825.^[1]

32 relations: Æthelbald of Mercia, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, Beorhtric of Wessex, Beornwulf of Mercia, Berkshire, Celtic Britons, Ceolwulf I of Mercia, Charles Oman, Coenwulf of Mercia, Cornwall, Ealhmund of Kent, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, Frank Stenton, Gafulford, History of Anglo-Saxon England, Kingdom of East Anglia, Kingdom of Essex, Kingdom of Kent, Kingdom of Sussex, List of monarchs of Mercia, Ludeca of Mercia, Lydiard Park, Mercia, Mercian Supremacy, Northumbria, Offa of Mercia, Swindon, Wessex, Wiglaf of Mercia, William Camden, Wiltshire, Wroughton.
820s conflicts
825
9th century in England
Battles involving Mercia
Battles involving Wessex
Military history of Wiltshire

Æthelbald of Mercia

Æthelbald (also spelled Ethelbald or Aethelbald; died 757) was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757.

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Æthelwulf, King of Wessex

Æthelwulf (Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858.

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Beorhtric of Wessex

Beorhtric (meaning "magnificent ruler"; also spelled Brihtric) (died 802) was the King of Wessex from 786 to 802, succeeding Cynewulf.

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Beornwulf of Mercia

Beornwulf; Old English for "Bear Wolf"; (died 826) was the King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 823 until his death in 826.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Ceolwulf I of Mercia

Ceolwulf I was the King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 821 until his deposition in 823.

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Charles Oman

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British military historian.

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Coenwulf of Mercia

Coenwulf (also spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph; Coenulfus) was the King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Ealhmund of Kent

Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784.

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Ecgberht, King of Wessex

Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839.

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Frank Stenton

Sir Frank Merry Stenton FBA (17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England, a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926–1946), president of the Royal Historical Society (1937–1945), Reading University's vice-chancellor (1946–1950).

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Gafulford

Gafulford (alternatively Gafulforda, Gafolforda or Gavelford) is the site of a battle in South West England known from the first entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 823 AD (usually corrected to 825 AD): "Her waes Weala gefeoht Defna aet Gafulford".

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).

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Kingdom of East Anglia

The Kingdom of the East Angles (Ēastengla Rīċe; Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, the area still known as East Anglia.

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Kingdom of Essex

The Kingdom of the East Saxons (Ēastseaxna rīce; Regnum Orientalium Saxonum), referred to as the Kingdom of Essex, was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Kingdom of Kent

The Kingdom of the Kentish (Cantwara rīce; Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England.

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Kingdom of Sussex

The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England.

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List of monarchs of Mercia

The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century.

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Ludeca of Mercia

Ludeca or Ludica was the King of Mercia from 826 to 827.

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Lydiard Park

Lydiard Park is a country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its former name, about west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, in West Swindon parish, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīċe, "kingdom of the border people"; Merciorum regnum) was one of the three main Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy.

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Mercian Supremacy

The Mercian Supremacy was the period of Anglo-Saxon history between c. 716 and c. 825, when the kingdom of Mercia dominated the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy in England.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Offa of Mercia

Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796.

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Swindon

Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.

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Wessex

The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.

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Wiglaf of Mercia

Wiglaf (died 839) was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 839.

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William Camden

William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

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