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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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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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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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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Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies (redirect from Ancestry of the kings of Wessex)
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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Pehthelm (category Anglo-Saxon bishops of Whithorn)
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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