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An Offa Inheritance

Season 4 Episode 160

King Offa of Mercia has died after a surprisingly long and productive reign. The degree of power he had gathered for himself was truly something to b…

11 years, 5 months ago

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An Offa End

Season 4 Episode 159

Lets start with Christmas Day 795. That’s the day Pope Hadrian died… so uh… Merry Christmas? Hadrian was actually a pretty decent Pope… not Pope Fran…

11 years, 5 months ago

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Offa With His Head

Season 4 Episode 158

Last week was dark, wasn’t it? Not only that, but it only covered the first half of 793. The end of the 8th century was an eventful period so lets pi…

11 years, 6 months ago

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Lindisfarne

Season 4 Episode 157

Northumbria was no stranger to problems… blood feuds, regicide, and kinslaying… they really have it all up there. But as 793 began, it was clear that…

11 years, 6 months ago

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An Offa Marriage

Season 4 Episode 156

When we left off things were looking pretty good for Mercia. Wessex was now acting as a subkingdom, with their King (Beohtric) married to Offa’s daug…

11 years, 6 months ago

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Its Always Sunny in Mercia: The Gang Throws a Party

Season 4 Episode 155

Back to our story, when we last left off, King Offa of Mercia was doing pretty well. He had just received Papal support for his plans of succession a…

11 years, 7 months ago

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Having it Offa

Season 4 Episode 154

Today we’re covering more about King Offa, and the reason is that he’s a really big deal. He reigned for about as long as King Henry VIII, he constru…

11 years, 7 months ago

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An Offa You Can't Refuse

Season 4 Episode 153

As you might have guessed, today we’re talking mostly about Offa. But before we get into some of the cool things that were going on under Offa’s reig…

11 years, 7 months ago

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Limited Time Offa

Season 4 Episode 152

Today we begin in Northumbria. King AEthelred of Northumbria, son of AEthelwold Moll, was sitting the throne, having taken it from a man who claimed …

11 years, 7 months ago

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Offa and Acceptance

Season 4 Episode 151

Alright, where did we leave off. We had a new Archbishop of Canterbury, King Offa of Mercia was on the rise, Kent was in decline, and the minor kingd…

11 years, 8 months ago

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