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Adda (d. 565?)  

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Addedomarus (fl. 35bc)  

Malcolm Todd

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Adminius (fl. c. ad 40)  

Malcolm Todd

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Ælla (d. in or after 597?), king of Deira  

Rosemary Cramp

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Ælla (d. in or after 597?), king of Deira, was the son of Iffa. His existence is firmly documented, although the dates of his floruit are disputed. There is archaeological evidence for the settlement of Germanic people in what is now eastern Yorkshire...

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Ælle [Ælla] (fl. late 5th cent.), king of the South Saxons  

S. E. Kelly

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Ælle [Ælla] (fl. late 5th cent.), king of the South Saxons, is said by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to have arrived in Britain in 477 with his three sons, Cymen, Wlencing, and Cissa. Their traditional landing place was at Cymenesora, a place on the ...

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Æsc (d. 512?)  

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Æthelberht I (d. 616?), king of Kent  

S. E. Kelly

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Æthelberht I (d. 616?), king of Kent, was the successor of his father, King Eormenric (550x600) [see under Kent, kings of], and a member of the Kentish royal dynasty, the Oiscingas, said to have been founded by Æsc [see under...

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Æthelfrith (d. c. 616), king of Northumbria  

Rosemary Cramp

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Æthelfrith (d. c. 616), king of Northumbria, was the son of Æthelric. He succeeded to the throne of Bernicia in 592, and in 604 to the joint Northumbrian kingdom of Deira and Bernicia which he ruled until 616. His first wife was Bebba...

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Æthelwealh (d. c. 685)  

S. E. Kelly

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Ailill Molt (d. c. 482), high-king of Ireland  

Philip Irwin

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Ailill Molt (d. c. 482), high-king of Ireland, was one of the five or more sons of Nath Í mac Fiachrach (d. 445?), ancestor of many of the Uí Fhiachrach kings of Connacht. His mother was said to have been Ethne ingen Chonrach Cais...

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Allectus (d. 296), Roman emperor in Britain  

P. J. Casey

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Allectus (d. 296), Roman emperor in Britain, first appears in the records of the revolt of his predecessor Carausius (286–93). What little can be established about him derives from hostile contemporary, or near contemporary, accounts of that revolt, in which Carausius rose against the joint emperors ...

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Alypius (fl. 360–c. 371)  

A. R. Birley

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Antoninus Pius [Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius] (ad 86–161), Roman emperor  

David J. Breeze

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Antoninus Pius [Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius] (ad 86–161), Roman emperor, was born Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus at Lanuvium, near Rome, on 19 September ad 86, the only known child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus and Arria Fadilla. He was educated at home and about 110 married ...

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Aspinall, John Victor (1926–2000)  

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Aspinall, John Victor (1926–2000), gambler and zoo owner  

Richard Davenport-Hines

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Aspinall, John Victor (1926–2000), gambler and zoo owner, was born on 11 June 1926 at Delhi, India, the second son of Mary Grace (1904–1987), daughter of Clement Samuel Horn, engineer, and wife of Colonel Robert Stivala Aspinall (1895–1954), of the Indian Medical Service (IMS), serving in ...

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Bodvoc (fl. ad 15–20)  

Malcolm Todd

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Boudicca [Boadicea] (d. ad 60/61), queen of the Iceni  

T. W. Potter

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Boudicca [Boadicea] (d. ad 60/61), queen of the Iceni, popularly known as Boadicea since the eighteenth century as a result of misreading manuscripts of the works of the Roman historian Tacitus, was the wife of Prasutagus [see under Roman Britain (55 bc–ad 84)...

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Bradley, Katharine Harris [pseud. Michael Field] (1846–1914), poet  

Virginia H. Blain

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Bradley, Katharine Harris [pseud. Michael Field] (1846–1914), poet, collaborated with her niece Edith Emma Cooper [pseud. Michael Field] (1862–1913) to publish verse under the pseudonym Michael Field. The aunt was born in Birmingham on 27 October 1846, the daughter of ...