Cuthberht was a
Mercia
la, Merciorum regnum
, conventional_long_name=Kingdom of Mercia
, common_name=Mercia
, status=Kingdom
, status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex ()
, life_span=527–918
, era= Heptarchy
, event_start=
, date_start=
, ...
n of the 8th century who may have been the same person as an ealdorman of that name who witnessed charters during the reign of Offa.
[Yorke, Barbara (1990). ''Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England''. London: Seaby. , p. 118.] Cuthberht may also be the same person as the Cuthberht mentioned in the ''
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of A ...
'' in the entry for 779.
[cf Charter S1412]
Cuthberht had at least three sons they were:
*
Coenwulf
Coenwulf (; also spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph; la, Coenulfus) was the King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821. He was a descendant of King Pybba, who ruled Mercia in the early 7th century. He succeeded Ecgfrith, the son ...
, King of Mercia 796 - 821.
*
Cuthred Cuthred is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Cuthred of Kent, ninth-century monarch
*Cuthred of Wessex, eighth-century monarch
*Cuthred son of Cwichelm of Wessex
Cwichelm (died 636) was an Anglo-Saxon king of the Gewisse, a p ...
, King of Kent 798 - 807.
*
Ceolwulf, King of Mercia 821 - 823.
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* ; see also
Mercian people
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