• Thumbnail for Penda of Mercia
    Penda (died 15 November 655) was a 7th-century king of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is today the Midlands. A pagan at a time when Christianity...
    53 KB (7,288 words) - 12:50, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercia
    Northumbrian domination and resulted in the appearance of another son of Penda, Wulfhere, who ruled Mercia as an independent kingdom (though he apparently continued...
    50 KB (5,521 words) - 13:34, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Æthelred of Mercia
    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...
    30 KB (3,637 words) - 03:23, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wiglaf of Mercia
    within Mercia and the genealogy of several of the kings of this time is unknown. Wigstan, his grandson, was later recorded as a descendant of Penda of Mercia...
    26 KB (3,289 words) - 21:13, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peada of Mercia
    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 his wife in...
    6 KB (636 words) - 09:45, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Winwaed
    Battle of the Winwaed (Welsh: Maes Gai; Medieval Latin: Strages Gai Campi) was fought on 15 November 655 between King Penda of Mercia and Oswiu of Bernicia...
    15 KB (1,853 words) - 11:23, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pybba of Mercia
    was an early King of Mercia. He was the son of Creoda and father of Penda and Eowa. Unusually, the names Pybba and Penda are likely of British Celtic, rather...
    3 KB (289 words) - 15:34, 12 June 2024
  • Oswiu (redirect from Oswio of Northumbria)
    Penda of Mercia. The early part of his reign was defined by struggles to assert control over Deira and his contentious relationship with Penda, his overlord...
    28 KB (3,833 words) - 19:51, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wulfhere of Mercia
    Wulfhere was the son of Penda of Mercia. Penda's queen, Cynewise, is named by Bede, who does not mention her children; no other wives of Penda are known and...
    35 KB (4,621 words) - 22:10, 1 May 2024
  • effectively ended his overkingship of Mercia until the rise of Penda. Whether Cearl reigned until Penda became king is unknown. Penda was in power by 633 (and possibly...
    6 KB (795 words) - 07:46, 21 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eowa of Mercia
    Eawa) (d. 642) was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; he was possibly King of Northern Mercia, as the 8th-century Historia...
    5 KB (626 words) - 15:38, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 7th century in England
    Battle of the Winwaed: King Oswiu of Bernicia kills King Penda of Mercia, giving himself rule over all of Northumbria and Mercia. He installs Penda's son...
    18 KB (2,020 words) - 13:35, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anna of East Anglia
    the three sons of Eni who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia, succeeding some time after Ecgric was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia. Anna was praised...
    34 KB (4,024 words) - 11:19, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercian Supremacy
    Mercian Supremacy (category Mercia)
    Bede as the nemesis of early Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, Penda of Mercia achieved an early expansion of his kingdom's territory, but his reign ended with his...
    4 KB (491 words) - 18:55, 16 October 2023
  • of the North" taken together, exclusive of all others). There was an alliance of the Cymry with Penda of Mercia initially forged by Cadwallon ap Cadfan...
    14 KB (1,713 words) - 23:26, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bretwalda
    of Northumbria (642–670) Egbert of Wessex (829–839) Alfred of Wessex (871–899) Penda of Mercia (626/633–655) Wulfhere of Mercia (658–675) Æthelred of...
    13 KB (1,696 words) - 22:01, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oswald of Northumbria
    was killed in the Battle of Maserfield while fighting the forces of Penda of Mercia, who then himself was defeated by Oswald's brother Oswiu. Oswald's...
    30 KB (3,752 words) - 19:03, 28 June 2024
  • to the task of defending the newly converted kingdom against attacks from its neighbouring kingdom, Mercia, led by its pagan king, Penda. Æthelwold was...
    21 KB (2,517 words) - 11:20, 25 January 2024
  • AD by Penda, King of Mercia, and Cadafael, King of Gwynedd. The siege can be seen as an important episode in a long-running war between Mercia and Northumbria...
    10 KB (1,502 words) - 13:53, 18 April 2024
  • Oswiu's enemy, Penda of Mercia, and assisted Penda during his invasion of Northumbria in 655. However, when the armies of Oswiu and Penda met on 15 November...
    2 KB (224 words) - 03:01, 20 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pendas Fields
    the Battle of the Winwaed in 655 AD (with "Pendas Fields" named for Penda of Mercia, the king who died at the battle). It has its own sports centre and...
    2 KB (233 words) - 21:09, 4 July 2023
  • Penna., an abbreviation for Pennsylvania Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia, who is sometimes called Penna of Mercia. Della Penna, a surname This disambiguation...
    554 bytes (108 words) - 06:59, 1 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Maserfield
    Ward) between the Anglo-Saxon kings Oswald of Northumbria and Penda of Mercia allied with Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd, ending in Oswald's defeat, death,...
    12 KB (1,488 words) - 07:38, 2 May 2024
  • King Penda of Mercia, himself a pagan, Christian missionaries from Lindisfarne were allowed to preach in the kingdom (around 653) and following Penda's death...
    26 KB (2,907 words) - 18:47, 19 June 2024
  • Mercian king for whom there is definite historical information is Penda of Mercia, Coenred's paternal grandfather. The main source for this period is...
    19 KB (2,321 words) - 22:04, 1 May 2024
  • in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Penda of Mercia (died 655), a 7th-century king Penda Hair, American civil rights lawyer Penda Ly (born 1991), Senegalese beauty...
    815 bytes (123 words) - 15:47, 29 January 2019
  • Thumbnail for Edwin of Northumbria
    significant legacies of Edwin's reign lay in his failures: the rise of Penda and of Mercia, and the return from Irish exile of the sons of Æthelfrith, which...
    27 KB (3,195 words) - 00:21, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of monarchs of Mercia
    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...
    27 KB (367 words) - 03:08, 14 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wessex
    Wessex (redirect from Kingdom of Wessex)
    godfather was King Oswald of Northumbria and his conversion may have been connected with an alliance against King Penda of Mercia, who had previously attacked...
    47 KB (5,944 words) - 23:37, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iclingas
    Iclingas (redirect from Icil of Mercia)
    lost control of Mercia soon after his death. Penda, who became king of Mercia in about 626 and is the first king named in the regnal lists of the Anglian...
    10 KB (775 words) - 05:52, 23 July 2024