On 7/13/2016 1:23 PM, Hovite via wrote: > Another Offa is recorded as King of Mercia, but again it is clear that his full name was Osfrith, ... Unless you can cite a document in which he was called Osfrith, that is far from clear, and the same is true of his Essex namesake. Naming customs generally have exceptions, and hypocoristic forms sometimes become separate names in their own right. Stewart Baldwin