Stamboek Melissen » Offa Mercia (736-796)

Personal data Offa Mercia 

Sources 1, 2
  • He was born in the year 736 in Tamworth, UK.
  • Fact: (Merged Gramps ID) I3413.
  • He died in the year 796, he was 60 years old.
  • The biological father is Thingfrith Mercia
  • This information was last updated on January 3, 2018.

Household of Offa Mercia

He is married to Cynethryth.Sources 1, 2

Child not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ecfrith_Mercia_(1)

Child not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Everth_Mercia_(1)
Child not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ecfrith_Mercia_(1)

Child not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Everth_Mercia_(1)

They got married

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. Conwulf Mercia  758-815 


Notes about Offa Mercia

Zoon van Thingfrith, zoon van Eanulf van Mercia.
Mogelijk geboren in Bredon, 18 Km ZO van Worcester.
Koning van Mercia in 757-796.
Gekozen tot koning na de dood van koning Aethelbald in 755.
Tamworth in Staffordshire is zijn belangrijkste residentie.
Bron BHO schrijft:

According to Worcester tradition, between 715 and 717, (fn 13) Ethelbald, King of Mercia, gave land at BREDON to his kinsman Eanulf to found a monastry there. (fn 14) Offa grandson of Eanulf endowed the monastery with lands in Worcestershire in 780. In 781, 12 manses at Bredon were confirmed by Offa to the see of Worcester in settlement of a dispute which had arisen between him and the bishop. (fn 16)

Verovert het gebied van de Humber (Yorkshire) tot aan Het Kanaal. Is daardoor de belangrijkste grondlegger van de unificatie van Engeland vóór koning Alfred de Grote van Wessex.
Consolideert zijn macht door uithuwelijking van dochters van hem aan de koningen van Wessex en Northumbria.
Eerste Bretwalda. Dwz: eerste koning van alle Engelsen in Groot-Brittannië.
Heeft moeizame betrekkingen met het Frankische Rijk onder Karel de Grote.
Heeft een goede relatie met paus Adrianus I, die hij in 792 in Rome bezoekt.
Bouwt Offa's Dyke als bescherming tegen aanvallen vanuit Wales. De dijk is ruim 238 Km (149 miles) lang en rijkt from sea to sea. Resten van deze wal zijn nog aanwezig.
Voert een zilveren munt in ter waarde van een penny.
Zoons: Everth (gst 796), Conwulf en Ecfrith.
** Mercia, SBW, Royal Succession, Conwulf van Mercia
# WP, BHO 9.10.2006, DAB

Offa's genealogy was "traced" back to Wodin in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles thusly:

That Offa was Thingfrith's offspring, Thingfrith Eanwulf's offspring, Eanwulf Osmod's offspring, Osmod Eawa's offspring, Eawa Pybba's offspring, Pybba Creoda's offspring, Creoda Cynewald's offspring, Cynewald Cnebba's offspring, Cnebba Icel's offspring, Icel Eomer's offspring, Eomer Angeltheow's offspring, Angeltheow Offa's offspring, Offa Wermund's offspring, Wermund Wihtlaeg's offspring, Wihtlaeg Woden's offspring.

It also states that Offa was the great-great grandson of Eowa
Zoon van Thingfrith, zoon van Eanulf van Mercia.
Mogelijk geboren in Bredon, 18 Km ZO van Worcester.
Koning van Mercia in 757-796.
Gekozen tot koning na de dood van koning Aethelbald in 755.
Tamworth in Staffordshire is zijn belangrijkste residentie.
Bron BHO schrijft:

According to Worcester tradition, between 715 and 717, (fn 13) Ethelbald, King of Mercia, gave land at BREDON to his kinsman Eanulf to found a monastry there. (fn 14) Offa grandson of Eanulf endowed the monastery with lands in Worcestershire in 780. In 781, 12 manses at Bredon were confirmed by Offa to the see of Worcester in settlement of a dispute which had arisen between him and the bishop. (fn 16)

Verovert het gebied van de Humber (Yorkshire) tot aan Het Kanaal. Is daardoor de belangrijkste grondlegger van de unificatie van Engeland vóór koning Alfred de Grote van Wessex.
Consolideert zijn macht door uithuwelijking van dochters van hem aan de koningen van Wessex en Northumbria.
Eerste Bretwalda. Dwz: eerste koning van alle Engelsen in Groot-Brittannië.
Heeft moeizame betrekkingen met het Frankische Rijk onder Karel de Grote.
Heeft een goede relatie met paus Adrianus I, die hij in 792 in Rome bezoekt.
Bouwt Offa's Dyke als bescherming tegen aanvallen vanuit Wales. De dijk is ruim 238 Km (149 miles) lang en rijkt from sea to sea. Resten van deze wal zijn nog aanwezig.
Voert een zilveren munt in ter waarde van een penny.
Zoons: Everth (gst 796), Conwulf en Ecfrith.
** Mercia, SBW, Royal Succession, Conwulf van Mercia
# WP, BHO 9.10.2006, DAB

Offa's genealogy was "traced" back to Wodin in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles thusly:

That Offa was Thingfrith's offspring, Thingfrith Eanwulf's offspring, Eanwulf Osmod's offspring, Osmod Eawa's offspring, Eawa Pybba's offspring, Pybba Creoda's offspring, Creoda Cynewald's offspring, Cynewald Cnebba's offspring, Cnebba Icel's offspring, Icel Eomer's offspring, Eomer Angeltheow's offspring, Angeltheow Offa's offspring, Offa Wermund's offspring, Wermund Wihtlaeg's offspring, Wihtlaeg Woden's offspring.

It also states that Offa was the great-great grandson of Eowa

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    Sources

    1. WeRelate.org, January 2, 2018
      Current version: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Offa_Mercia_(1)
      Authors: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Offa_Mercia_(1)?action=history
    2. WeRelate.org, January 3, 2018
      Current version: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Offa_Mercia_(1)
      Authors: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Offa_Mercia_(1)?action=history

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