A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne

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A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne

Simon Coupland

First published: 03 May 2023

https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12640

[Oppiano]

A completamento:

 

[numa numa]

A completamento..

 

Offa - king of Mercia - marito di di Cynethryth (unica regina il cui nome - e ritratto - appare sulle monete anglosassoni)

Offa, King of Mercia (757-796), silver Penny, light coinage (c.780-792), London, moneyer Ealhmund, undraped bare head bust right extending to bottom of coin wearing pendent with chain with horned shoulders, beaded circles and legend surrounding, +.O.F:FA:R:.EX.+., rev. moneyer name in two lines with flourish, serpent torque surrounding, ALH / MuN /.~., weight 1.28g (BMC 7; Chick 37k this coin; Blunt 42; SCBI 21:953 Yorkshire; SCBI 67:559 Lyon; N.318; S.905).

 

With the second longest reign in Mercian history at 39 years, Offa was arguably the most powerful ruler of the early Anglo-Saxon period dominating Southern England and claiming as much as to be King of the English, and later known as Offa the Great. Surprisingly little is known for such a long reign, but this perhaps suggests times of peace, stability and control over his nobles. If the genealogies are correct, he was cousin of King Aethelbald and descended from Eowa, the brother and co-ruler of Penda. Offa's Father was Thingfrith who was the son of Eanwulf. Offa seized power on the murderous death of Aethelbald in 757 overthrowing the usurper Beonred. The records remain quiet for the first twenty years of the reign at a time when a new style coinage emerges clearly influenced by the latest models on the continent, and it is thought Offa even brought Italian engravers based on style and artistic form. An art that was lost not long after and such life-like portraits not being seen again until the Renaissance in the Tudor period hundreds of years later.

 

 

[numa numa]

ricevuto oggi da Simon Coupland, volentieri diffondo:

 

Italian connection Emmerig Festschrift.pdf

[Oppiano]

Grazie, ma, salvo errori, non si apre.

[numa numa]

Adesso, numa numa dice:

ricevuto oggi da Simon Coupland, volentieri diffondo:

 

Italian connection Emmerig Festschrift.pdf

 

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neanche a me 🥲

[Oppiano]

Idem 

[numa numa]

se non è troppo pesante dovrebbe essere la volta buona ..

Italian connection Emmerig Festschrift.pdf

[Oppiano]

Perfetto! Grazie.

[VALTERI]

Qualche cenno su Offa (e la sua regina ) si era scritto il 13-11-2019 in discussione " Rex Anglorum " , che per la mia pochezza informatica non so allegare .

[Oppiano]

Ciao @VALTERI, allego io per te.

 

[VALTERI]

Grazie @Oppiano per la cortesia : applicandomi, un giorno, forse anche io imparerò .

Una buona serata