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CYNEWULF (d. 785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYNEWULF (d. 785)  ,
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king of Wessex, succeeded to the
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throne in 757 on the deposition of Sigeberht . He was constantly at
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war with the Welsh . In 779
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Offa of
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Mercia defeated him and took Bensington . In 785 he was surprised and killed, with all his thegns
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present, at
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Marten, Wilts (Merantune), by Cyneheard,
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brother of the deposed Sigeberht . See
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Earle and Plummer's edition of the Anglo-Saxon
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Chronicle, 755, 779 (
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Oxford, 1892) .

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