-
hostile account of
Ceolred may
indicate a more
general dissatisfaction with the
ruling line. In 709
Coenred abdicated in
favour of
Ceolred.
Coenred went to...
- that a king
named Ceolwald,
perhaps a
brother of
Ceolred,
reigned for a
short while between Ceolred and Æthelbald. Æthelbald's
accession ended Penda's...
-
Ceolred.
According to the thirteenth-century
Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham,
Ceolred was not the son of Osthryth,
although it does not name
Ceolred's mother...
-
greater nobility renounced the
throne of his kingdom". Æthelred's son
Ceolred succeeded Coenred as king of Mercia. By the 7th century,
England was divided...
- of
Mercia around 716 AD. King
Ceolred of Mercia, a
grandson of Penda, died in 716. Most
Mercian king-lists have
Ceolred succeeded by Æthelbald, who was...
-
Mercia (complete list) – Æthelred I, King (675–704) Coenred, King (704–709)
Ceolred, King (709–716) Ceolwald, King (c.716 ) Æthelbald, King (716–757) Beornred...
-
period of
their rule
began in 716
following the
death of Penda's
grandson Ceolred and
ended with Ecgfrith's
death in
December 796. It was in the
battle of...
- Fens to Mercia, and
seizes the
throne after the
death of his
cousin King
Ceolred, who had
driven him into
exile (see 709). He
gains hegemony over London...
- 716 Cœnred 704–709 Son of Wulfhere.
Abdicated and
retired to Rome. ?
Ceolred 709–716 Son of Æthelred I.
Probably poisoned. 716
Ceolwald 716 Presumed...
-
fought a
battle at Woden's
Barrow in 715,
either against the
Mercians under Ceolred or
together with them
against an
unnamed opponent; the
result is not recorded...
