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Updated: May 26, 2025

He created Thurkill Earl or Duke of East Anglia for these titles were then nearly of the same import Yric of Northumberland, and Edric of Mercia; reserving only to himself the administration of Wessex.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 : (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)

But seizing afterwards a favourable opportunity, he expelled Thurkill and Yric from their governments, and banished them the kingdom; he put to death many of the English nobility, on whose fidelity he could not rely, and whom he hated on account of their disloyalty to their native prince.

David Hume - The History of England, Volume I

But seizing afterward a favorable opportunity, he expelled Thurkill and Yric from their governments, and banished them the kingdom; he put to death many of the English nobility, on whose fidelity he could not rely, and whom he hated on account of their disloyalty to their native prince.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 : (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)