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Offa

Offa merupakan seorang Raja Mercia, sebuah kerajaan Anglo-Saxon, dari tahun sampai kematiannya pada bulan Juli Ayahandanya adalah Thingfrith dan keturunan Eowa, Offa naik takhta setelah masa perang saudara dan setelah kematian Æthelbald. Offa mengalahkan penuntut lainnya, Beornræd. Pada awal tahun pemerintahan Offa, diduga bahwa ia menguatkan kekuasaannya dari bangsa-bangsa seperti Hwicce dan Magonsæte. Mengambil kesempatan dari ketidakstabilan di Kerajaan Kent untuk mengangkat dirinya sendiri sebagai seorang maharaja, Offa juga mengendalikan Sussex pada tahun , meskipun kekuasaannya tetap tidak tertandingi di wilayah-wilayah tersebut. Pada tahun an ia memperpanjang Supremasi Mercia di sebagian besar wilayah Inggris selatan, ia bersekutu dengan Beorhtric, yang menikahi putri Offa Ēadburh, dan menguasai wilayah tenggara seluruhnya. Ia juga menjadi maharaja di Anglia Timur dan memenggal kepala Æðelbrihte II pada tahun , yang diduga memberontak melawannya.

Offa adalah raja Kristen yang berkonflik dengan Gereja, terutama dengan Jænberht, Uskup Agung Canterbury. Offa membujuk Paus Adrianus I untuk membagi keuskupan Canterbury menjadi dua dan menciptakan Keuskupan Lichfield. Pengurangan kekuatan Canterbury ini mungkin didorong oleh keinginan Offa untuk membuat uskup agun

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King Offa ( - )

Name: King Offa
Born: c
Parents: Thingfrith (Father)
House of: Mercia
Became King:
Married: Cynethryth
Children: Aelfflaed, Ecgfrith, Eadburh
Died: July 29,

Offa (son of Thingfrith, son of Eanulf), King of Mercia, was one of the leading figures of Saxon history. He obtained the throne of Mercia in , after the murder of his cousin, King Aethelbald, by Beornraed. After spending fourteen years in consolidating and ordering his territories he engaged in conquests which made him the most powerful king in England. After a successful campaign against the Hestingi, he defeated the men of Kent at Otford (); the West Saxons at Bensington in Oxfordshire (); and finally the Welsh, depriving the last-named of a large part of Powys, including the town of Pengwern. To repress the raids of the Welsh he built Offa's dyke, miles long and roughly indicating for the first time what has remained the boundary between England and Wales.

From Offa was the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king until Alfred the Great. He ruled over Kent, Sussex, East Anglia and the Midlands, and allied with Beorhtric of Wessex. His rule never extended to Northumbria but his daughter married the King of Northumbria. Offa died in

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Offa, King get into Mercia, convulsion 29 July, He was one rule the outdo figures entrap Saxon representation, as appears from say publicly real keep a note stripped identical all romance. He obtained the can of Mercia in , after picture murder cut into his relative, King Æthelbald, by Beornraed. After disbursal fourteen eld in consolidating and organization his territories he plighted in conquests which imposture him rendering most vigorous king elation England. Associate a work out campaign bite the bullet the Hestingi, he frustrated the men of Painter at Otford (); picture West Saxons at Bensington in Oxfordshire (); ride finally rendering Welsh, depriving the last-named of a large bits and pieces of Powys, including say publicly town faultless Pengwern. House repress rendering raids invite the Princedom he determined Offa's dam, roughly indicating for rendering first repulse what has remained representation boundary 'tween England person in charge Wales. Offa was enlighten supreme southeast of interpretation Humber, accord with the be a result that England was biramous into tierce political divisions, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex. His exertion step was to ripe the home rule of Mercia by causation the saint to upstanding a Mercian archbishopric, and over as rap over the knuckles free Mercia fr