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AngloSaxon Kings Essay Research Paper AngloSaxon KingsDuring

Anglo-Saxon Kings Essay, Research Paper


Anglo-Saxon Kings


During the Anglo-Saxon period there were many kings. Three of the more notable


kings were Offa of Mercia, Alfred of Wessex, and AEthelbert of Kent.


Offa also known as “King of the English” reigned in Mercia from 757 to 796. Offa


had a more powerful kingdom than others such as Lindsey, the Hwicce, and Sussex. Offa


had control over all of the kingdoms mentiond even the kingdoms of Kent and East


Anglia. King Offa had gotten his position as king after a civil war. He was able to


succsesfuly exstend his kingdom by letting the kings of Northumbria and Wessex marry his


daughters. Because of all this it made Offa one of the most powerful kings in Southern


England. At the end of Offa’s reign he had become the most powerful and sucssful king in


all of England south of the Humber river.


During Offa’s time as king he had done somthing that was very noticable Offa had


built a dyke named after him, he called it Offa’s Dyke. This ditch was up to 176 miles long


and ran between the kingdoms of Mercian and Welsh. The reason this ditch was built is


because Offa had dealings with an emperor by the name of Charlemagne. No one really


knows what these dealings where about but they must have been very important for him to


build a 176 mile ditch.


Another king and probibly the most well knowen king was king Alfred of Wessex,


he was also knowen as King Alfred the Great. The fame that Alfred gained was not due


to fact but due to myth. The lengends made him almost as populer as “King Aurther”.


Alot of the most important things that he had done are not rememberd because of so many


legends. Alfred became king due to the fact that he was crowend by his father,


AEthelwulf of Wessex. Alfred had become a king in his early some say about as early as


21 years of age.


When Alfred had first become a king the Vikings where trying to take over his


kingdom. At this time the Vikings had allready taken over East Anglia, Northumbria, and


Mercia. Alfred had allready pland to deffeat the Vikings befor they had gotten there and


Alfred was succsseful on this part. To make shure that the Vikings would not try to take


over his kingdom again he had ships built to meat them at sea so that they would not have


a chance to take over Wessex.


During Alfreds reign of 30 years he was able to make some changes to his


kingdom to better the lives of the very people that he was king of. Alfred made it so that


no town was more than 20 miles away so that if one where to march

to another town it


would only take one day. The towns which he had called burhs where protected by over


26,000 men there where thirty of these towns that exsisted. Alot of these towns still are


here today.


Alfred had promoted education such as reading, writing, religon, and many other


forms of education. The main reason that he had promoted education was because he


wanted people to be able to read orders and laws that he had come up with. Reading was


encuredged more than any thing else so that people would know what his legal code that


had been established was about.


Aethelbert was the third king to rule in the kingdom of Kent. He ruled after two


other kings, Aelle of Sussex and Ceawlin of Wessex. Aethelbert ruled after these kings


which gave him overlordship over most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms south of the


Humber river. Aethelbert had reigned for a totle of Fifty-Six years which some people say


was a long time for him to stay king. It is said that Aethelbert did not become a king in


the Kent kingdom untill about the year 590. It is also said that Aethelbert was a king from


560 to 616.


Aethelbert was the first frankish king to rule the kingdom of Kent. He was also


the first christian king to rule Kent. He became a Frankish king by marring a Frankish


princess named Bertha. The marrage took place in the year of 580, sence Aethelbert was


a christian his soon to be wife was escorted by christian preasts and bishops. One of the


more well knowen bishops was Liudhard. King Aethelbert of Kent had already knowen


about christianity befor the christian religion was the offical religion of his kingdom. He


was thought to have given commitment to the christian religion even though he did not


have himself baptised untill a later date which is unknowen. Bertha had become a christian


because she had been married under the christian religion and Aethelbert, her husband,


was a christian. Some say that Aethelbert was not very succsesful in converting his entire


kingdom to the christian religion. It was thought that having a kingdom that had christian


religion would make one’s kingdom very powerful. In the year of 601 Aethelbert had


recevied a letter from Pope Gregory welcoming him to the christian community of


christian rulers. Aethelbert had ruled his kingdom from 590 to 616, He died the year of


616.


In conclusion all three of these kings had made good contributions to their


kingdoms. These kings had been knowen for somthing in their time of ruling each and


every one of their kindoms.

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