Offa wins an archbishopric for Lichfield
787* · Event
At the 'contentious synod' of Chelsea, Offa carves a Mercian archbishopric of Lichfield out of Canterbury's province and has his son Ecgfrith consecrated king — the first recorded anointing of an English king.
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