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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...
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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...
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    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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  • 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...
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    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;...
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    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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    establishes himself as king of Mercia, setting up his son-in-law, Penda's son Peada, as a subject king over Middle Anglia. Empress Kōgyoku re-ascends to the...
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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,...
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    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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    southern part going to Penda's Christian son Peada, who had married into the Bernician royal line (although Peada survived only until his murder in 656). Northumbrian...
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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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    655 Eowa c.635–642 Son of Pybba. Co-ruler. Killed in battle. 5 Aug 642 Peada c.653–656 Son of Penda. Co-ruler in the south-east Midlands. Murdered. 17...
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    Mercia, based on the mid-Trent Valley. Peada of Mercia, son of Penda, was sub-king of the Middle Angles. Peada had agreed to become a Christian in return...
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    dominance over the area of Middle Anglia, where he establishes his son Peada as ruler. Peada marries Alchflaed, daughter of King Oswiu of Bernicia, and is baptised...
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    655 Eowa c. 635–642 Son of Pybba. Co-ruler. Killed in battle. 5 Aug 642 Peada c. 653–656 Son of Penda. Co-ruler in the south-east Midlands. Murdered....
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    Chronicle records for the year 654: "The Middle Angles, under earldorman Peada, received the true faith. King Anna was killed and Botolph began to build...
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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...
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    Maropa Guacanahua Mabenaro Caviña Toromona Arasa Tiatinagua one peada peada peáda peada pebbi pembive pea nonchina owi two beta beta beta beta beta beta...
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  • Wessex Cynegils of Wessex Sigeberht of East Anglia Riderch I of Alt Clut Peada of Mercia Edwin of Northumbria Boris I of Bulgaria (864) Guthrum (878) Borivoj...
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  • settlement by pagan Anglo-Saxons is to be found. A.D. 656. This year was Peada slain; and Wulfhere, son of Penda, succeeded to the kingdom of the Mercians...
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  • to the Midlands at Repton, where some of the Mercian royal family under Peada were baptised in AD 653.[citation needed] Soon a double abbey under an abbess...
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    known as "Medeshamstede", was founded in the reign of the Anglo-Saxon King Peada of the Middle Angles in about 655 AD, as one of the first centres of Christianity...
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  • Peterborough Abbey + Saxon monastery founded c.655, built by Saxulf, a monk, and Peada, King of Mercia and his brother Wulfhere; monks 655-6; Benedictine? monks...
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    Lichfield. Mercian rulers remained resolutely pagan until the reign of Peada in 656, although this did not prevent them joining coalitions with Christian...
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    Cynddylan, king of Pengwern (Wales) Li Daozong, prince of the Tang dynasty Peada, king of Mercia (Midlands) Sigebert III, king of Austrasia (or 660) Zubayr...
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    Sexwulf founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by Peada of Mercia, who converted to Christianity and was briefly ruler of the smaller...
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  • favor of Norse paganism Palnetoke, legendary pagan foster-father of Sweyn's Peada of Mercia (died 656), son of Penda and a pagan until his conversion Penda...
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    pommels of their enemies' swords. Wall (2015) postulates a connection to Peada, briefly king of Mercia in 655–656 CE. Sharp (2016) connects the deposition...
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  • Mercia. Shortly after, Alhflaed married Penda's son Peada. Alhflaed, a devout Christian, urged Peada to convert. Relations between Oswiu and Penda remained...
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    but according to Bede, Alhfrith was a Christian and convinced Penda's son Peada to convert to Christianity too. Although it has been stated that Cyneburh...
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