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Mercia (/ˈmɜːrʃiə, -ʃə, -siə/, Old English:
Miercna rīċe, "kingdom of the
border people"; Latin:
Merciorum regnum) was one of the
three main
Anglic kingdoms...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- English: Beornrǣd) (?-757) was a
Mercian Thane who was
briefly King of
Mercia in 757.
Beornred ascended the
throne following the
murder of King Æthelbald...
- Old English: Burhræd) was an Anglo-Saxon king of
Mercia from 852 to 874.
Burgred became king of
Mercia in 852, and may have been
related to his predecessor...
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kingdom of
Mercia,
which at that time
dominated the
other southern English kingdoms. In 825,
Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of
Mercia,
ended Mercia's supremacy...
- 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...
- [ˈbeorˠxtwuɫf],
meaning "bright wolf"; also
spelled Berhtwulf; died 852) was King of
Mercia, a
kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 839 or 840 to 852. His ancestry...
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Pybba (570?–606/615) (also Pibba, Wibba, or Wybba) was an
early King of
Mercia. He was the son of
Creoda and
father of
Penda and Eowa. Unusually, the names...
