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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...
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    Tamworth which became the seat of Mercia's kings. His son Pybba succeeded him in 593. Cearl, a kinsman of Creoda, followed Pybba in 606; in 615, Cearl gave...
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    descent from Pybba of Mercia. The C dynasty, beginning with Coenwulf, may have had ties to the ruling family of Hwicce in south-west Mercia. Ceolwulf's...
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    that Pybba had 12 sons, including Penda, but that Penda and Eowa of Mercia were those best known to its author. (Many of these 12 sons of Pybba may merely...
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    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...
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    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...
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    collection, a set of genealogies that include lines of descent for four Mercian kings. All four lines descend from Pybba, who ruled Mercia early in the 7th...
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  • Mercian royal genealogy; Henry of Huntingdon in the 12th century placed him as ruling after Pybba, saying that he was not Pybba's son but was his kinsman. Bede...
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    Iclingas (redirect from Icil of Mercia)
    Iclings or House of Icel) were a dynasty of Kings of Mercia during the 7th and 8th centuries, named for Icel or Icil, great-grandson of Offa of Angel, a legendary...
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    concluded when Cadwallon married Alcfritha, daughter of Pybba of Mercia. However, the effect of these tumultuous events would come to be short-lived,...
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    forced to sign a peace treaty. Cearl succeeds Pybba as king of Mercia (English Midlands). King Harsha of Thanesar establishes a northern Indian Empire...
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    Coenulfus) was the King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821. He was a descendant of King Pybba, who ruled Mercia in the early 7th century...
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    Thorn tended to be more used in the south (Wessex) and eth in the North (Mercia and Northumbria). Separate letters th were preferred in the earliest period...
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    Crida, 6th 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...
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    king of Tibet (approximate date) Pei Ji, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 629) Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate date) Rigunth, daughter of Chilperic...
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    involves dynastic rivalry and the exile of Hussa's relatives. Pybba succeeds his father Creoda as king of Mercia (approximate date). The Persian usurper...
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    after his death, says of him that "when the son of Pyd requested, how ready he was". This may be a reference to Penda, the son of Pybba, meaning that Cynddylan...
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  • over not only Icel but Cnebba, Cynwald, and Creoda, jumping straight to Pybba, whose son Penda is the first documented as king, and who along with his...
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  • chieftain of the Slavs John I Lemigius, exarch of Ravenna John of Conza, Italian rebel leader Máel Coba mac Áedo, High King of Ireland Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate...
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    have revolved around the name of Pybba (or Wybba) of Mercia. Charles Plummer's 1896 edition of Bede's History made note of Arnold's observation, but then...
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  • king of Tibet (approximate date) Pei Ji, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 629) Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate date) Rigunth, daughter of Chilperic...
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  • involves dynastic rivalry and the exile of Hussa's relatives. Pybba succeeds his father Creoda as king of Mercia (approximate date). The Persian usurper...
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  • Oswine, King (fl. 689–690) Wihtred, King (c.693–725) Mercia (complete list – Creoda, King (c.585–593) Pybba, King (c.593–606/615) Cearl, King (?–c.626) Eowa...
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  • chieftain of the Slavs John I Lemigius, exarch of Ravenna John of Conza, Italian rebel leader Máel Coba mac Áedo, High King of Ireland Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate...
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  • patriarch of Chán John Climacus, monk and writer Paterius, bishop of Brescia (Italy) Protadius, Mayor of the Palace (Burgundy) Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate...
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