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Mercia (/ˈmɜːrsiə, -ʃə, -siə/, Old English:
Miercna rīċe, "kingdom of the
border people"; Latin:
Merciorum regnum) was one of the
three main
Anglic kingdoms...
- Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of
Mercia, a
kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757
until his
death in 796. The son of
Thingfrith and a descendant...
- 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...
- the
kingdom of
Mercia,
which at that time
dominated the
other southern English kingdoms. In 825,
Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of
Mercia,
ended Mercian...
- the
death or
disappearance of
Mercia's last king,
Ceolwulf II, in 879. He is also
sometimes called the
Ealdorman of
Mercia. Æthelred's rule was confined...
- kingdoms,
conventionally the
seven kingdoms of East Anglia, Es****, Kent,
Mercia, Northumbria, Sus****, and Wes****. The term
originated with the twelfth-century...
- Look up
Mercia, Mercian, or
Mercians in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon
kingdom covering the
region now
known as the English...
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Danish Viking rule – East
Anglia and
Northumbria having been conquered, and
Mercia partitioned between the
English and the
Vikings – but in that year Alfred...
- was king of
Mercia from 675
until 704. He was the son of
Penda of
Mercia and came to the
throne in 675, when his brother,
Wulfhere of
Mercia, died from...
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noblewoman who is
relatively well do****ented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of
Mercia, and a
patron of
various churches and monasteries. Today, she is mainly...
