Thingfrith
Thingfrith was the father of King Offa.[1] He was the son of a certain "Eanwulf" and was descended from King Penda of Mercia's brother, Eowa of Mercia.[2]Thingfrith was possibly married to a Marcellina (latinised), an Angle noblewoman.
Descendants
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the lineage of two Mercian kin's of Eowa's blood, Æthelbald and Offa.
"Aethelbald was Alweo's offspring, Alweo Eawa's offspring, Eawa Pybba's offspring...", Later, it gives the lineage of Eowa's great-great-grandson Offa, who ruled from 757 to 796 and was descended from Osmod rather than Eowa's other son Alweo, "That Offa was Thingfrith's offspring, Thingfrith Eanwulf's offspring, Eanwulf Osmod's offspring, Osmod Eawa's offspring, Eawa Pybba's offspring, Pybba Creoda's offspring, Creoda Cynewald's offspring, Cynewald Cnebba's offspring, Cnebba Icel's offspring, Icel Eomer's offspring, Eomer Angeltheow's offspring, Angeltheow Offa's offspring, Offa Wermund's offspring, Wermund Wihtlaeg's offspring, Wihtlaeg Woden's offspring".
References
- ^ Mrs. Mathew Hall (1854). Lives of the Queens of England Before the Norman Conquest. Blanchard and Lea. pp. 297–. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ^ Erik Kooper (2002). The Medieval Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999. Rodopi. pp. 172–. ISBN 978-90-420-0834-2. Retrieved 29 May 2013.