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This is the first 1,000 characters of 831 words (3.32 pages) in the essay titled AngloSaxon Kings During the Anglo-Saxon period there were many kings. Three of the more notablekings 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 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 . ... |
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