the ledger of connections
The Connections of Offa of Mercia
King of Mercia Every person recorded alongside Offa of Mercia in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Offa of Mercia in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Thingfrith
- Spouses
- Cynethryth
- Children
- Ælfflæd of Mercia, Ecgfrith of Mercia, Ælfthryth of Crowland, Æthelburh, Eadburh
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 800 CE to 796 CE.
Medieval era
Adi Shankara
788 CE – 820 CE
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
Medieval era
Al-Mu'tasim
796 CE – January 5, 842 CE
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
Medieval era
Charlemagne
April 2, 748 CE – January 28, 814 CE
King of the Franks crowned first Holy Roman Emperor, father of Europe
Medieval era
Harun al-Rashid
March 7, 766 CE – March 24, 809 CE
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Egbert of Wessex
771 CE – 839 CE
King of Wessex
Medieval era
Louis the Pious
April 16, 778 CE – June 20, 840 CE
King of the Franks
Medieval era
Ziryab
777 CE – 857 CE
9th-century poet and musician
Medieval era
Widukind
755 CE – c. 900 CE
Duke of Saxony
Medieval era
Krum
755 CE – April 13, 814 CE
Bulgarian ruler
Medieval era
Lothair I
795 CE – September 29, 855 CE
Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855