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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.
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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 ...
This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.. The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede.Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with ...
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 ...
Son of Ælla of Deira, which he also ruled, killed in battle by Penda, King of Mercia: Bernicia Dynasty: late 632 to 633 Eanfrith: Son of Æthelfrith 634 to 5 Aug 642 Oswald (Osuualde, Osƿald) Son of Æthelfrith, also ruled Deira, killed by Penda, King of Mercia; Saint Oswald late 642 to 654 Oswiu: Son of Æthelfrith, became king of united ...
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.