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Cynewulf of Wessex
Cynewulf was king of Wessex from 757 to 786, coming to power after the deposition of Sigeberht. He fought the Welsh and was defeated by Offa of Mercia at Bensington in 779, losing lands north of the Thames. He was killed in 786 at Meretun by Cyneheard, Sigeberht's brother, in an episode described at length in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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