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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Offa of Mercia |
 | | Offa was the son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, the brother of King Penda, who had ruled over a hundred years before. |
 | | Following the murder of his cousin, King Æthelbald in 757, Offa defeated Beornrad, who fled, thus seizing the throne of Mercia. |
 | | Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. |
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