bretwalda in a sentence

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1. The use of the term " Bretwalda " was the attempt by a West Saxon chronicler to make some claim of West Saxon kings to the whole of Great Britain.
2. All the subsequent bretwaldas followed more or less consecutively, but there is a long gap, perhaps fifty years, between �lle of Sussex, the first bretwalda, and Ceawlin.
3. Up until the Norman conquest of England, Wales had remained for the most part independent of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, although some Welsh kings did sometimes acknowledge the Bretwalda.
4. The conversion of �thelberht, king of Kent is the first account of any Christian bretwalda conversion and is told by the Venerable Bede in his histories of the conversion of England.
5. At various points in history there existed a High King of Ireland, who ruled over the other kings as suzerain, much like the British High Kings and Anglo-Saxon Bretwalda.
6. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not list �thelbald as a bretwalda, or " Ruler of Britain ", though this may be due to the West Saxon origin of the Chronicle.
7. There has been much scholarly debate over just what it meant to be a " bretwalda ", and the extent of �lle's actual power in southern England is an open question.
8. I personally-- not knowing better-- would prefer to date the English monarchy to the late fifth century, when Aelle of Sussex was the first overlord, known as a bretwalda.
9. To do that, he must ensure that the Sais, led by Aelle who calls himself the Bretwalda ( Ruler of Britain ), remain at peace, and only money can achieve that.
10. The " imperium ", as Bede calls it, that Edwin possessed was later equated with the idea of a Bretwalda, a later concept invented by West Saxon kings in the 9th century.