Sicga (died 22 February 793) (also given as Siga and Sigha) was a nobleman in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Sicga first appears in the historical...
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"sedge moor", but is instead "marsh of a man called Sicga" from the Old Norse personal name Sicga and Old English mor "moor". The name was recorded as...
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was deposed in 778. He was murdered, probably at Chesters, by ealdorman Sicga on 23 September 788. He was buried at Hexham Abbey where he was considered...
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(Manuscript D: Cotton Tiberius B IV) records the murder of King Ælfwald by Sicga at Scythlecester (which may be modern Chesters) on 23 September 788: This...
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Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II. September – Battle of Kopidnadon:...
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mother's brother Oswulf, who was murdered by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. Osred, even though he united two of the competing factions in Northumbria...
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(or 783) Zhou Chi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 851) February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty...
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bishop of Ravenna (b. 499) 606 – Sabinian, pope of the Catholic Church 793 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide 845 – Wang, Chinese empress dowager 954...
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Byzantine general (strategos) Osred II, king of Northumbria 793 February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty...
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Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by ealdorman Sicga and succeeded by his first cousin Osred II as king of Northumbria. At Offa's...
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