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    Great. He became a powerful earl after the death of his father, Godwin, Earl of Wessex. After his brother-in-law, King Edward the Confessor, died without...
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    the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England...
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    oversaw the shire court and collected taxes and royal estate dues. Earl Godwin of Wessex was the strongest earl and Cnut's chief minister. When Cnut died in...
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    Burke (English: ⫽d ˈbɜːr⫽; d’-BER; French pronunciation: [d.buʁ]; Irish: de Búrca; Latin: Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman...
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    denominated by a territory or place of birth, eg., House of Normandy, House of Wessex. "Angevin" can also refer to the period of history in which they reigned...
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    Retrieved 12 March 2015. Godwin; p 67 Hart-Davis; p 102 Godwin p 75 Godwin p 75. Bell; p 4 Cutler Foot Bell; p. 6 Godwin; pp. 76–77 Bell; p 1, p 29...
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    the reign of Queen Anne. Alfred was king of Wessex from 871. There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father...
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    "Aesc". A minor Saxon character called "Cherdic" is probably Cerdic of Wessex, though elsewhere Geoffrey calls the same king "Cheldric". He actually may...
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    House of Hanover (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    1635, also known then as the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Hanoverians ascended to prominence with Hanover's elevation to an Electorate in 1692. In 1714...
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    1265 and was granted the lands and privileges of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, after de Montfort's death and attainder at the end of the Second...
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