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Peada (died 656), a son of Penda, was
briefly King of
southern Mercia after his father's
death in
November 655 and
until his own
death at the
hands of...
- Elfleda) was a seventh-century
Mercian queen and the wife and
murderer of
Peada of Mercia. Ealhflæd was the
daughter of
Oswiu of Northumbria. Her mother...
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These royal names include those of Penda's
father Pybba, and of his son
Peada. It has been
suggested that the firm
alliance between Penda and various...
- Ealhflæd
married Penda's son
Peada.
Peada was
baptised at Ad Murum—in the
region of Hadrian's Wall—by Aidan's
successor Finan.
Peada and Ealhflæd took a missionary...
- power. Penda's son
Peada, who had
converted to
Christianity at
Repton in 653,
succeeded his
father as king of Mercia;
Oswiu set up
Peada as an under-king;...
- the
Battle of Winwaed,
fighting against Oswiu of Northumbria. Penda's son
Peada became king
under Oswiu's
overlordship but was
murdered six
months later...
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Peada, in
charge of the
Middle Angles as sub-king. Bede
specifies the
Middle Angles as the
target of a four-man
Christian mission accepted by
Peada,...
- Winwaed.
Oswiu installed Peada, a son of Penda, as king of
southern Mercia and
ruled the
northern half himself;
after Peada was
murdered in 656 Oswiu...
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Mercian queen. Her
sister Alhflæd had
married Peada, King of
South Mercia 654–656.
After the
death of
Peada, who was
allegedly murdered with Alhflæd's connivance...
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difficult mission to the
Middle Angles, at the
request of
their sub-king
Peada, part of a
developing pattern of
Northumbrian intervention in
Mercian affairs...
