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United Kingdom - Anglo-Saxons
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Please Note: Research has highlighted conflicting dates or overlapping dates most likely due to joint succession - therefore should be treated as approximations.
Key: D: = Death
Key: D: = Death
| Anglo-Saxons | ||
| KINGDOM OF MERCIA | ||
| Year | King - House of Iclin | |
| 425-450 AD | Anglo-Saxon Arrival | |
| 515-535 AD | Icel (Icil) | |
| 535-545 AD | Cnebba | |
| 545-580 AD | Cynewald | |
| 585-593 AD | Creoda | |
| 593-606 AD | Pybba | |
| 606-626 AD | Ceorl | |
| 626-655 AD | Penda | |
| 655-658 AD | Occupied by Northumbria | |
| 655-656 AD | Peada (Sub-King Middle Anglia) | |
| 658-675 AD | Wulfhere | |
| 675-704 AD | AEthelred I | |
| 704-709 AD | Coenred | |
| 709-716 AD | Coelwald | 
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| 716-757 AD | AEthelbald * | |
| 757 AD | Beornred | 
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| 757-796 AD | Offa * | |
| 796 AD | Ecgfrith | 
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| 796-821 AD | Coenwulf * | 
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| 821 AD | Cenelm | |
| 821-823 AD | Ceolwulf I | |
| 823-825 AD | Beornwulf | |
| 825-827 AD | Ludecan | |
| 827-828 AD | Wiglaf | |
| 828-830 AD | Wigmund Occupied by Wessex | |
| 830-840 AD | Wiglaf (Restored) | |
| 840 AD | Wigstan | |
| 840-852 AD | Beorhtwulf | |
| 852-874 AD | Burghred | |
| 874-c.881 AD | Ceolwulf II (Viking Sub-King) | |
| The Vikings invades Mercia 874 and conquer the eastern half which become a part of the Danelaw. The status of the other half is unclear but it came to recognise the supremacy of Wessex. After 919 was it definitively a part of Wessex |
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| Earldom of Mercia | ||
| c.881-911 AD | AEthelred II (may have been King) | |
| c.888-918 AD | AEtherlflaed (Lady - co-ruler) | |
| 918-919 AD | Alfwynn (Lady - daughter) | |
| c.931-955 AD | Ealhhelm | |
| c. 955-983 AD | AElthere | |
| 983-1006 AD | AElfric | |
| 1007-1017 AD | Eadric Streona | |
| 1017-1057 AD | Leofric | |
| 1057-1062 AD | AElfgar | |
| 1062-1071 AD | Eadwine | |
| Mercia is 1071 partitioned into several smaller earldoms | ||
* = Ęthelbald styled himself King of Britain 746 and Offa called himself King of the English 774. Coenwulf styled himself as emperor. Possibly were all Mercian kings from the middle of the seventh century to 828 called Bretwalda and were as such the formal overlord of all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Either way was Mercia the leading power in England and the smaller kingdoms became its vassal states. = East Anglia |
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Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom located in central England. From the middle of the seventh century to the beginning of the ninth century was Mercia the most powerful state in Britain. But it lost that position in the ninth century to Wessex and the remains of Mercia that was not conquered by the Viking became a vassal state to Wessex until it finally was incorporated into the unified English kingdom. The name Mercia is a Latin form of the Germanic word "mark", which means borderland, and it is derived from the fact that Mercia was the outermost Anglo-Saxon kingdom bordering the Celtic states.
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