168 – The Fall of Mercia
The British History Podcast
Jamie Jeffers
4.6 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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When we left off, King Beornwulf was reigning over Mercia. Beornwulf was the beginning of the creatively named B-Dynasty, due to the fact that Anglo Saxons seemed to denote their dynasties by selecting the same first letters for their kids. So Beornwulf had two kids named Berhfrith and Behrtric, a brother named Bynna, and it’s […]
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, welcome to the British History Podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | My name is Jamie and this is episode 168, The Fall of Mercia. |
| 0:13.7 | This show is free and independent due to member support and as thanks for helping keep the |
| 0:17.6 | community going, I offer members only content including extra episodes and rough transcripts. |
| 0:23.2 | And right now I'm working on an episode, Undorse Religion, which is actually turning |
| 0:27.4 | out to be a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. |
| 0:30.5 | It's confusing and muddy and kind of all over the place, but it is starting to take shape |
| 0:35.6 | and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 0:37.4 | So that's what I'm working on right now and if you're interested in listening to that |
| 0:41.2 | or any of the earlier members on the episodes or if you're just interested in supporting |
| 0:45.8 | the show, you can do so over at the British History Podcast dot com. |
| 0:50.6 | And thank you very much to Oliver, Keith and Emma for contributing already. |
| 0:56.0 | I recently got some questions about cone wolf and why he kept calling him an emperor. |
| 1:01.3 | And one specific question was whether or not there is a mercy and empire and that's |
| 1:06.1 | a great question. |
| 1:07.7 | The reason why he called cone wolf emperor cone wolf was because he referred to himself |
| 1:11.8 | in a charter as an emperor. |
| 1:14.2 | It's significant because his self-proclaimed emperor in this predate Charlemagne, which |
| 1:19.1 | makes him the first emperor in Western Europe since the days of Rome. |
| 1:23.9 | I wouldn't want to take that away from him. |
| 1:26.0 | So as for whether or not there is a mercy and empire, that's a harder question. |
| 1:31.5 | Was he a king of kings? |
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