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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: 790 deaths, 791 deaths, 792 deaths, 793 deaths, 794 deaths, 795 deaths, 796 deaths, 797 deaths, 798 deaths, 799 deaths, Offa of Mercia, Paul the Deacon, Pope Adrian I, Ma Sui, Li Sheng, Li Baozhen, Donnchad Midi, Zhang Xiaozhong, Dou Can, Li Na, Guan Bo, Æthelberht II of East Anglia, Dong Jin, Pei Yanling, Qi Ying, Tian Xu, Michael Lachanodrakon, Musa al-Kadhim, Abu Yusuf, Malik ibn Anas, Jænberht, Zhao Jing, Liu Zi, Lu Mai, Constantine VI, Caradog ap Meirion, Sibawayh, Ya¿qub ibn ¿ariq, Eanbald, Wake no Kiyomaro, Nandivarman II, Dhruva Dharavarsha, Eric of Friuli, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria, Emperor Mun of Balhae, Bran Ardchenn, Hisham I of Córdoba, Ólchobar mac Flainn, Æthelred I of Northumbria, Tommaltach mac Indrechtaig, Domnall mac Donnchada Midi, Takano no Niigasa, Huai Su, Ceolwulf of Lindsey, Fastrada, Cairpre mac Laidcnén, Cináed mac Artgail, Wei Yingwu, Osbald of Northumbria, Stephen II of Naples, Lalla, Æthelberht of Whithorn, Colla mac Fergusso, Sicga, Lu Lun, Donncoirce, Osred II of Northumbria, Fujiwara no Hamanari, Thecla of Kitzingen, Wonseong of Silla, Fujiwara no Tsugutada, Ceolmund, Artgal mac Cathail, Ælfthryth of Crowland, Ælfhun, Ailell mac Inreachtach, Ecgfrith of Mercia, Gerold, Prefect of Bavaria, Gregory II of Naples, Al-Akhfash al-Akbar, Muireadhach mac Olcobhar, Dae Won-ui, Cummascach mac Fogartaig, Seong of Balhae, Torson, Count of Toulouse, Altpert, Abu Yusuf Ya'qub, Peter of Pisa, Wermad. Excerpt: Offa was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æthelbald after defeating the other claimant Beornred. In the early years of Offa's reign it is likely that he consolidated his control of midland peoples such as the Hwicce and the Magonsæte. Taking advantage of instability in the kingdom of Kent to establish himself as overlord, Offa was also in control of Sussex by 771, though his authority did not remain unchallenged in either territory. In the 780s he extended Mercian supremacy over most of southern England, allying with Beorhtric of Wessex, who married Offa's daughter Eadburh, and regained complete control of the southeast. He also became the overlord of East Anglia, and had King Æthelberht II of East Anglia beheaded in 794, perhaps for rebelling against him. Offa was a Christian king, but came into conflict with the Church. In particular with Jaenberht, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Offa managed to persuade Pope Adrian I to divide the archdiocese of Canterbury in two, creating a new archdiocese of Lichfield. This reduction in the power of Canterbury may have been motivated by Offa's desire to have an archbishop consecrate his son Ecgfrith of Mercia as king, since it is possible Jaenberht refused to perform the ceremony, which took place in 787. Offa had a dispute with the Bishop of Worcester which was settled in the Council of Brentford in 781. Many surviving coins from Offa's reign carry elegant depictions of him and the artistic quality of these images exceeds that of the contemporary Frankish coinage. Some of his coins carry images of his wife, Cynethryth-the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever depicted on a coin. Only three gold coins of Offa's have survived: one is a copy of an Abbasid dinar of 774, and carries Arabic text on one side of the coin, with "Offa Rex" on the other...