Quotes About King

Power in Mercia passed to a new king named Coenwulf,

Alfred responded to the invasion by summoning an army

So began the rule of the greatest king of eighth-century Britain,

He was, in the words of one modern historian, 'the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England'.

the boundary agreed between the king and his erstwhile enemy, Guthrum,

warlord who would later become king of Norway.

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

in 934, the king set out to discipline Constantine by invading his territory.

the king not only the promise of future paradise and life everlasting,

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

the king would have lacked both the time and the depth of understanding to have done any of the intellectual heavy

ruler of all these regions, Æthelstan has good claim to be considered the first king of England

The king was constantly asking for copies of particular texts, which he put together to form a little book

the king insisted, there was nobody able to read them, such had been the decline in literacy.

The king of Wight, Arwald, appears to have been killed in the course of the invasion,

the king had a royal residence there, and happily this is another occasion where history and archaeology touch hands,

William was a monk at Malmesbury and had evidently seen inside the king's tomb.

King Dagobert, he was a marked man.

monasteries should actively place themselves under the protection of the king and queen.

King Sæberht of Essex was succeeded by his pagan sons,

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.

Edward reigned for a quarter of a century, very little is known about him as a person.

when Boniface says he had also heard that the king had stolen revenues from churches and monasteries,

One possibility is that the king and his companions were cracking down on 'fake monasteries