For the 9th century Mercian princess, see Cwenthryth.
Queen consort of Mercia
Cynethryth
Queen consort of Mercia
Portrait penny of Cynethryth, minted by Eoba at Canterbury. Cynethryth is the only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have had coins issued in her name and these are unique in Western Europe of the period.[1] Coin held by the British Museum.
Died
after 798
Spouse
Offa of Mercia
Issue
Ecgfrith, King of Mercia Eadburh, Queen of Wessex Ælfflæd, Queen of Northumbria Æthelburh Æthelswith
Cynethryth (Cyneðryð; died after AD 798) was a Queen of Mercia, wife of King Offa of Mercia and mother of King Ecgfrith of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only Anglo-Saxon queen consort in whose name coinage was definitely issued.
Cynethryth (Cyneðryð; died after AD 798) was a Queen of Mercia, wife of King Offa of Mercia and mother of King Ecgfrith of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only...
contemporary Frankish coinage. Some of his coins carry images of his wife, Cynethryth—the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever depicted on a coin. Only three gold coins...
He was the son of Offa, one of the most powerful kings of Mercia, and Cynethryth, his wife. In 787, Ecgfrith was consecrated king, the first known consecration...
from Penda, but it might also be Wiglaf's wife, Cynethryth, who was descended from Penda. Cynethryth's name is known from two of Wiglaf's charters, dated...
Eadburg, (fl. 787–802) was the daughter of King Offa of Mercia and Queen Cynethryth. She was the wife of King Beorhtric of Wessex, and according to Asser's...
original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2011. Simon Keynes, "Cynethryth", in Lapidge, Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, p. 133. Haslam, Jeremy...
a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxon female names Cynethryth and Cwenthryth, may refer to: Cynethryth (fl. 770–798), wife of King Offa of Mercia Cwenthryth...
grains (350 grams), giving a pennyweight of about 1.46 grams. His queen Cynethryth also minted these coins under her own name. Near the end of his reign...
Canterbury in an act of penance. After Offa's death in 796, his widow Cynethryth became the abbess. At the synod of Clofesho, which took place somewhere...
patronage of the Kingdom of Mercia, and one of the later abbesses was Cynethryth, widow of Offa of Mercia. It became the centre of a power struggle between...
and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by parochial church Donnington Friary ^...
fl.675–709 r.704-709 Eaffa Bassa Offa King of Mercia ?-796 r.757–796 Cynethryth ?-aft.798 Beornred King of Mercia r.757 Ealhmund King of Kent c.750–784...
Canterbury 946–955 c. 920, near Glastonbury Son of Thegn Heorstan and Cynethryth 19 May 988 Treasurer Chancellor Eadred (946–955) No informal holder; personal...
Stane Street in Bishop's Stortford Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement of Cynethryth in Cookham Recovery of the timber from a ship probably from Tudor period...
earliest biographer, known only as 'B', his parents were called Heorstan and Cynethryth and they lived near Glastonbury. B states that Dunstan was "oritur" in...
fifth-century namesake, is called Quendrida, a somewhat flawed Latin rendering of Cynethryth, the actual name of Offa's wife. The author, moreover, etymologised the...
reigns only until December; Wessex regains its independence. Offa's widow Cynethryth becomes abbess of Cookham Abbey.[citation needed] December – Ecgfrith...
between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the abbess of Cookham Abbey (named Cynethryth, probably the widow of Offa): Offa had taken the abbey and its lands,...
Tale"). Portions of the text, especially those dealing with Quendrida (Cynethryth), are translated in: Fulk, Robert D. "The Name of Offa's Queen: Beowulf...
agreement of exchange of lands between the archbishop and the Abbess Cynethryth. The fifth Council of Clovesho was one of the most remarkable of the series...
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