Kings and Queens of Mercia
Kings and Queens of Mercia, 515 - 918 AD - Historic UK
In this article, we outline the many Kings and Queens of Mercia from Icel in the early 500's all the way through to Ælfwynn in 918 who annexed the kingdom to ...
List of monarchs of Mercia - Wikipedia
Kings of the Mercians · Iclingas · B-dynasty (so-called – a conjectural grouping based on names alone) · C-dynasty (traditionally a branch of the Iclingas, ...
List of monarchs of Mercia - Simple Wikipedia
Mercia was one of the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy. This is a later name given to the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England during the early Middle Ages.
After the Vikings had successfully driven Burgred from Mercia, they moved to install their own puppet king to administer the kingdom. As the Anglo-Saxon ...
The Mercian Kings Listed in Order - Discovery UK
The Kings of Mercia · Creoda · Pybba · Cearl · Penda · Eowa · Peada · Oswiu of Northumbria.
Medieval and Middle Ages History Timelines - Kings of Mercia
The rulers of Mercia are known as the Iclingas from Icel who was the great-grandfather of Creoda. Icel had a son called Cnebba, who had a son called Cynewald.
Its rulers became the very first English monarchs to assume such wide ranging titles as 'King of Britain' and 'King of the English'.
Mercia | Anglo-Saxon, Heptarchy, Wessex - Britannica
His sons Wulfhere and Aethelred maintained the tradition of Mercian belligerence, but under Aethelbald (reigned 716–757), who won control of London, and his ...
Kingdom of Mercia - World History Encyclopedia
Offa is considered the greatest king of Mercia and the most significant Anglo-Saxon monarch before the rise of Alfred the Great. He reigned for ...
Mercia - Royal Family Wiki - Fandom
Mercia (Old English: Mierce, "border people") was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries ...
Kings and Queens of Wessex - Historic UK
Supported to the throne by Æthelbald of Mercia, Cynewulf may well have spent his first few months in power acting as a sub-king for the Mercians. However, when ...
Aethelflaed, Lady of Mercia: The Anglo-Saxons' Only Queen
Charles was a lad, he's been a history obsessive – summer holidays were always spent dragging his family around Welsh castles!
Aethelflaed | Queen of Mercia, Warrior, Defender - Britannica
Aethelflaed was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England and the founder of Gloucester Abbey. The eldest child of King Alfred the Great, she helped her ...
Who was the first Queen of Mercia? - Quora
There have been 3 queens regnant of Mercia, the first of whom was Ælfflæd, she was the daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia and was the wife of ...
Was there a Queen of Mercia? - Quora
The wife of the King of Mercia was the Queen consort of Mercia, there have been many of them. The Queen consort never had any power though.
Kingdom of Mercia - The Anglo-Saxons
The eighth century witnessed the zenith of Mercian power under the reign of King Offa (757-796 CE). Offa's rule marked a period of unprecedented ...
Kingdom of Mercia Monarchs - The Anglo-Saxon Heritage
Kingdom of Mercia Monarchs. The traditional rulers of Mercia were known as the Iclingas, descendants of the kings of the Angles from Germania. Though some ...
chronology of britain's kings and queens
Seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the so-called Heptarchy of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex came to dominate the region.
The Monarchs of Mercia, England and the United Kingdom
This time-line lists the monarchs of these kingdoms from Mercia to the present day. It records the Mercian, then English, then British monarchs of the land ...
Osthryth, Queen of the Mercians - The Freelance History Writer
Osthryth was one of the few women mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”.
Uí Ímair
DynastyThe Uí Ímair, also known as the Ivar dynasty or Ivarids, was a Norse-Gael dynasty which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin, the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides and some part of Northern England, from the mid 9th century.