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Note for: Edmund I , 921 - 26 MAY 946 Index

Individual Note: He was murdered by an Outlaw,Leolf, stabbed him to death at a banquet to St. Augustine. He expelled the Norse King Olaf from Northumbria in 944. He supported Dunstan in the reintroduction of the Monastic rule of St. Benedict

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Note for: Edward , 869 - 925 Index

Individual Note: He was crowned King of England 8 June, 900.at Kingston -on- Thames

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Note for: Alfred , ABT 848 - 28 OCT 899 Index

Individual Note: In 874 the last independent Anglo-Saxon King of Merci surrendered and his kingdom was dispearsed. The Eastern area fell under The Vikings. Of the independent,Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, Wessex was the only one that survived. It would have fallen in 877-8 ,if King Alfred had not withdrawn to the Somerset marshes to renew his stragtegy and regroup his forces. After that he inflicked a defeat on Guthrum at Edington in May of 878,. this was the turning point in Wessex's struggle to regain their independence By 896 the Vikings were forced to withdraw north of the Thames
Alfred was one of the greatest men in history. He was crowned King at Winchester,in 871 He founded the British Navy, Organized the military. he was a good scholar and translated many books.

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Note for: Robert I Capet, posth.866 - 15 JUN 923 Index

Individual Note: Robert Capet 1st was Count of Poitiers, Marquis of Neustria and Orleans,Count of Paris, Duke of France and King of the West Franks

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Note for: Carloman , 828 - 880 Index

Individual Note: Carolman married daughter of Count Ernest He was Mayor of the Palace.

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Note for: Louis I , AUG 778 - 30 APR 840 Index

Nickname: King of France

Individual Note: aka Louis le Debonaire,Holy Roman Emperor
781 King of Aquitaine

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Note for: Charlemagne , 2 APR 742 - 28 JAN 814 Index

Individual Note: Charlemange was king of France 768-814. Crowned Holy Roman Emperor 25 Dec.800, He was considered one of the great men of history
AKA Charles The Great. He had two more mistresses
Adelind sonTheodric 807 a cleric

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Note for: Maud de Lacie, - BEF 10 MAR 1288/89 Index

Individual Note: Maud de-lacie, widow of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester,outlived her husband by more than 25 years.She died in March 1289. From 1262 until her death she held one-third of the Clare inheritance in dower, although her son earl Gilbert The Red did sucessfully challange the original composition of her dower portion, which was readjusted in 1267. Maud never remarried, preferring to spend her long widowhood living off the revenues of her estates,contributing greatly to ecclesiastical foundations, and helping to promote her children. Her gifts to religious houses were numerous. in 1248 Earl Richard founded Clare Priory, the first house of Austin Friars in England, and after his death the Countess continued his generosity with several grants of land to the Priory. In addition, a scheme to found an Augustinian nunnery atracted her. In 1284 she refounded the priory of Cannonsleigh in Devon. Canonsleigh was originally for seven Augustinian canon by Walter de Clavill, a mesne tenant of the honor of Gloucester, but in 1284 Maud provided an annual gift of L200 for the suport of an abbess and 40 canonesses of that order. She originally had the idea of doing this for Sandleford Priory in Berkshire, for some reasonthe plan fell through in 1274, and a decade later she refounded Canonsleigh instead. By 1286 the new nunnery was in existence, and the dispossessed canon were under royal protection.