- Offa is not everyone’s idea of a decent father-in-law, but apparently one of his daughters married Brihtric, King of Wessex with no fuss at all.
- Offa, ruler of Mercia from 757 to 796, one of the most powerful kings in early Anglo-Saxon England.
- Cynewulf of Wessex fought Offa at Benson c.779 and although he lost some parts of northern Wessex to Offa, remained an independent ruler.
- Offa, hükümdarlığı sırasında üzerinde kralın adı ve unvanıyla birlikte sikkelerin kalitesinden sorumlu olan kişinin adının da yazılı olduğu yeni metal paralar bastırdı.
- King Offa is a good example of an Early Medieval King - he was powerful, his kingdom barely outlived him, and nobody really knows anything about him...
- Offa (died 796) was the King of Mercia, reigning from 757 until his death. His rapid expansion of his territory paved the way for the unification of England...
- 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, with "Offa Rex" on the other.
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- Unfortunately, though we know the dates of his rule, some of what happened before and after, and the wars we fought, we know little of Offa as a man.
- Burton, E. (1911). Offa. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11215c.htm.