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The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
The first kings of Mercia were pagans, and they resisted the encroachment of Christianity longer than other kingdoms in the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. [ 33 ] Mercian rulers remained resolutely pagan until the reign of Peada in 656, although this did not prevent them joining coalitions with Christian Welsh rulers to resist Northumbria.
Ruled Mercia from 796 to 821: [9] held dominion over the East Angles after Eadwald's brief reign; [21] no precise date is known for the start of his overlordship in East Anglia. [22] Ceolwulf: Brother of Coenwulf; ruled Mercia from 821 to 823. [23] Beornwulf: Of unknown origin; [24] Ruled Mercia from 823. [9] to 826; [9] killed during an East ...
Penda, who became king of Mercia in about 626 and is the first king named in the regnal lists of the Anglian collection, and at the same time the last pagan king of Mercia, gave rise to a dynasty that supplied at least eleven kings to the throne of Mercia. Four additional monarchs were given an Icling pedigree in later genealogical sources but ...
There are instances of kings being forcibly removed and placed in holy orders to make them ineligible for kingship; one such was King Osred II of Northumbria, who was forced into a monastery. [11] Ceolred was Æthelred's son, but his mother was not Osthryth, Æthelred's only recorded wife. [12] He may have still been young at the time of his ...
Wulfhere's immediate relations. Wulfhere was the son of Penda of Mercia. Penda's queen, Cynewise, is named by Bede, who does not mention her children; no other wives of Penda are known and so it is likely but not certain that she was Wulfhere's mother.
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Ælfwynn was the ruler of Mercia as the 'Second Lady of the Mercians' for a few months in 918, following her mother's death on 12 June 918. She was the daughter of Æthelred and Æthelflæd, the rulers of Mercia.