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Mercia (/ˈmɜːrsiə, -ʃə, -siə/,
Mercian Old English:
Mercna rīċe, "kingdom of the
border people"; Latin:
Merciorum regnum) was one of the prin****l kingdoms...
- 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
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...
- Offa (born
circa 730, 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...
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Mercia, Mercian, or
Mercians in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon
kingdom covering the
region now
known as the English...
- century) may have been one of the
first kings of the Anglo-Saxon
kingdom of
Mercia,
ruling toward the end of the 6th century.
Although he is
mentioned in a...
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Ceolwulf II (died c. 879) was the last king of
independent Mercia. He
succeeded Burgred of
Mercia who was
deposed by the
Vikings in 874. His
reign is generally...
- 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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Danish Viking rule – East
Anglia and
Northumbria having been conquered, and
Mercia partitioned between the
English and the
Vikings – but in that year Alfred...