Quotes About Leadership

At what stage such a man might start styling himself as 'king' must have varied from case to case.

there were always two emperors, ruling two separate empires, with two separate armies.

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

Power in Mercia passed to a new king named Coenwulf,

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

In 757, having ruled for forty-one years, he was killed by his own bodyguard

Alfred responded to the invasion by summoning an army

The Emergence of Kings and Kingdoms

So began the rule of the greatest king of eighth-century Britain,

Given that he would go on to reign for almost forty years, Offa must have been a young man in 757,

so Oswald became the new ruler of Northumbria, reuniting the kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.

although he wielded supreme power over the whole island,

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

warlord who would later become king of Norway.

after the viking leader's submission in 878.

it forced Æthelred to do what Byrhtnoth had refused to countenance, and pay the vikings to cease their plundering.

A crucial difference between Æthelred and Alfred, however, is that Alfred fought against his enemies in person.

once in power he soon embarked upon a plan far more ambitious than that of any of his predecessors.

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

even a foundling like Scyld could quickly create a lordship that covered a large territory.

at least three of these men had previously been pleased to describe themselves as kings of Sussex.

Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

Ealdred of Bamburgh, had dutifully attended several assemblies down to his death in 933.