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	Chapter 5: Anglo-Saxon Mercia
		The area occupied by the Hwiccii later formed one of the five earldoms of the kingdom of Mercia.
		Mercia occupied the upper basin of the Trent River and later almost all of southern England.
		Wybba, son of Creoda, was the second king of Mercia.
	www.phancocks.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /localhistory/anglsxns.htm (2100 words)

	Wikipedia: Mercia
		Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands.
		A revolt in 657 resulted with the appearance of another son of Penda, Wulfhere, who ruled Mercia until he was defeated and killed in an invasion of Northumbria in 674.
		Mercia soon returned to the rule of her own king, but its days as the leading power of England had passed.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/me/mercia.html (695 words)

	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.
		Mercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex.
		The Danes drove Burgred, the last king of Mercia from his kingdom in 874 and in 886, the eastern part of the kingdom became part of the Danelaw, while the western portion was occupied by Wessex.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/m/me/mercia.html (957 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk" (see marches), and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P.
		In 821, Coenwulf himself was succeeded by his brother Ceolwulf, who demonstrated his military prowess by his attack on and destruction of the fortress of Deganwy in Powys.
		In 886, the eastern part of the kingdom became part of the Danelaw, while Mercia was reduced to its western portion only.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Mercia (1202 words)

	MERCIA - LoveToKnow Article on MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 827 Ludeca, the successor of Beornwulf, was slain in battle with five of his earls.
		Under these later kings Mercia seems to have extended from the Humber to the Thames, including London, though East Anglia was independent, and that part of Essex which corresponds to the modern county of that name had been annexed to Wessex after 825.
		With this exception, Watling Street, the Ouse and the Lea, continued to be the boundary between Mercia and the Danish kingdom of East Anglia down te the death of IEthelred, between 910 and 912.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MERCIA.htm (2877 words)

	Beornwulf of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826.
		His short reign saw the collapse of Mercia's dominant position among the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the Heptarchy.
		A man named Beornwulf is mentioned as having witnessed a charter of King Coenwulf in 812 and another of King Ceolwulf in 823, but his position on each of these charters suggests he was not of an exceptionally high rank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beornwulf_of_Mercia (183 words)

	Read about Mercia at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Mercia and learn about Mercia here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the
		Wroxeter, known to the Welsh as "The Paradise of Powys." Elegies written in the persona of its dispossessed rulers record the sorrow at this loss.
		Rome, Æthelbald was free to establish Mercia's hegemony over the rest of the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Mercia (988 words)

	MERCIA - Online Information article about MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was expelled the same year by Offa, who soon restored the power of Mercia, which seems to have suffered some diminution during the later years of /Ethel- - h.," Offa's policy was apparently the extinction of the depen- ngdoms.
		Lea, continued to be the boundary between Mercia and the Danish kingdom of East Anglia down to the death of /Ethelred, between 910 and 912.
		After her death in the latter year her daughter /Elfwyn was soon deprived of the government by Edward, and Mercia was definitely annexed to Wessex.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MERCIA.html (1802 words)

	MERCIA - Encyclopedia Britannica - MERCIA - JCSM's Study Center
		MERCIA, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England.
		During the invasion of 89397 English Mercia was again repeatedly ravaged by the Danes; but in the last of these years, by the united efforts of Alfred and /Ethelred, they were at length expelled.
		With this exception, Watling Street, the Ouse and the Lea, continued to be the boundary between Mercia and the Danish kingdom of East Anglia down to the death of /Ethelred, between 910 and 912.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/MEC_MIC/MERCIA.html (1686 words)

	Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mercia's influence probably reached its zenith during the reign of Offa in the latter half of the 8th century.
		To the north was the frontier between Mercia and Gwynedd, and to the south between Mercia and Ercing and Gwent.
		In 903, the East Anglian Danes ransacked Mercia and northern Wessex, incited by the rebel Æthelwold, cousin of Edward (Alfred's son and successor).
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /mercia.htm (12476 words)

	Mercia
		The Kingdom of Mercia at its greatest extent (7th to 9th centuries) is shown in green, with the original core area (6th century) given a darker tint.
		Wulfhere was initially successful in restoring the power of Mercia, but the end of his reign saw a serious defeat against Northumbria.
		Ethelfleda freely gave London and Oxford to her brother in Wessex as a token of loyalty, and concentrated on fortifying Mercia's existing borders — east towards Nottingham, north to Chester, along the Welsh marches, and down to the Severn estuary.
	schools-wikipedia.org /wp/m/Mercia.htm (1015 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Iclingas & Mercians
		Mercia is by now recognised as the overlord of the Ciltern Saxons and the Suther-ge.
		By this time, Mercia had absorbed the Saxon kingdoms of the Wrocenset and Magonset (occupying the rest of the territory of former British Pengwern) to the west, and much of the Middle Angles to the east.
		On the death of Queen Aethelflaed, control of Mercia passes to her brother, Edward, King of Wessex.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandMercia.htm (696 words)

	MERCIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mercia's neighbours included Northumbria, Powys, the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East_Anglia.
		Offa exerted himself to ensure that his son Ecgfrith_of_Mercia would succeed him, but after his death in July 796, Ecgfrith survived for only five more months, and the kingdom passed to a distant relative named Coenwulf in December 796.
		J._R._R._Tolkien is one of the many people who focused on the Old English dialect of Mercia.
	www.southcountryequity.com /Mercia (1128 words)

	Beornwulf of Mercia - Wikinfo
		Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826.
		His short reign saw the collapse of Mercia's dominant position among the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the Heptarchy.
		A man named Beornwulf is mentioned as having witnessed a charter of King Coenwulf in 812 and another of King Ceolwulf in 823, but his position on each of these charters suggests he was not of an exceptionally high rank.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Beornwulf (577 words)

	The History Bookshop
		He is the last of the descendants of King Penda to rule Mercia.
		He describes the Britain of his day as largely peaceful, in which two kings, Ceowulf of Northumbria and Aethlebald of Mercia, hold dominion over the Anglo-Saxon peoples; the Britons lack real power and the Picts and Scots are friendly to the Anglo-Saxons.
		This is probably a defeat for Mercia allowing both Kent and Sussex temporarily to regain their independence.
	www.historybookshop.com /timelines/anglo-saxon-eng-700-849.htm (2097 words)

	Beornwulf of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		826) was a King of Mercia (823 - 826).
		Beornwulf's brief reign was notable in that it saw the transfer of supremacy in England from Mercia to Wessex.
		In the wake of these events, Mercia's dominance of southern England began to rapidly unravel.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/beornwulf_of_mercia (237 words)

	The TEUTONIC INVASIONS of CELTIC BRITAIN
		The origins of Mercia are obscure, although it probably started out as a small kingdom roughly equating to modern Warwikshire sometime in the fifth century.
		During the Viking invasions the kingdom was split with the Anglo-Saxons retaining the western half and the Vikings contolling the eastern half (the Five Boroghs).
		From the late ninth century onwards western Mercia was under the overlordship of the West Saxon kings.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Column/1122/ANSAXNVA.htm (4690 words)

	Wiglaf of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wiglaf (died 839/40) was the King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death.
		He became king after his predecessor, Ludeca, was killed in a failed attempt to subjugate the rebellious East Anglians.
		At this time, Mercia was engaged in a conflict with the rising power of Wessex, which had begun during the reign of Beornwulf in 825, and in 829, Egbert of Wessex successfully invaded Mercia and drove Wiglaf from his throne.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Wiglaf-of-Mercia.htm (228 words)

	East Anglia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The sarcophagus was found in a wonderful manner to fit the virgin's body as if it had been made purposely for her, and the place for the head, which was fashioned separately, appeared exactly shaped to the measurement of her head.
		In 827, Beornwulf's successor, Ludeca, met the same fate, as Florence of Worcester reports: "Ludecan (Ludeca), king of the Mercians, mustered his forces and led an army into the province of the East Angles, for the purpose of taking vengeance for the death of king Beornulf (Beornwulf), his predecessor.
		He was quickly met by the natives and their king, who in a severe battle slew him and five of his ealdormen, and very many of his troops, and put to flight the remainder." (Florence, bearing the same two year discrepancy as the 'Chronicle', places the event in 825).
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /anglia.htm (4866 words)

	MERCIA
		Mercia The eighth and last kingdom of the Heptarchy, between the Thames and the Humber.
		"MERCIA" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
		Words containing "MERCIA": amerciable, anticommercial, anticommercialism, anticommercialisms, commercial, commercialise, commercialised, commercialises, commercialising, commercialism, commercialisms, commercialist, commercialistic, commercialists, commercialities, commerciality, commercialization, commercializations, commercialize, commercialized, commercializes, commercializing, commercially, commercials, countercommercial, infomercial, infomercials, noncommercial, noncommercials, overcommercialization, overcommercializations, overcommercialize, overcommercialized, overcommercializes, overcommercializing, semicommercial, ultracommercial, uncommercial, uncommercialized.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Me/Mercia.html (1226 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : People
		Cuthred of Mercia, subking of Kent from brother Coenwulf (798-807)
		Bealdred (of Mercia?), ruler of Kent, perhaps as subking for Beornred (823 - 825 [Kent submits to Æthelwulf of Wessex])
		Cenwealh, king of Wessex (642-5, 648-72 [gap: in exile from Penda of Mercia])
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet?do=show&page=People (1311 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aethelred II 884-911 (as above) Aethelflaed c.888- 918 (joint) Aelfwynn 918-919 Mercia merged with the Kingdom of Wessex in 919 Return to Monarchs Index...
		Mercia FM present Bon Jovi LIVE in Coventry in June 2006.
		Mercia FM's Weekday Wind-Down Register to be John Dalziel's workplace - choose your favourite songs to calm you down...
	mercia.iqexpand.com (1284 words)

	Darkages
		Neither Ludeca nor Wiglaf, who succeeded him in 827, was Egbert's equal in birth, or in the wealth which attracted warriors into a king's retinue.
		In Wessex the conquest of Mercia was regarded as an achievement which entitled Egbert to a place among the greatest figures in English history.
		The annexation of Mercia and the submission of the Northumbrians foreshadowed the appearance of a kingdom of all England.
	www.egbert.co.uk /darkages.html (3661 words)

	Ludeca of Mercia - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ludeca of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ludeca of Mercia - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ludeca of Mercia.
		Here you will find more informations about Ludeca of Mercia.
		The orginal Ludeca of Mercia article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ludeca-of-Mercia.html (134 words)

	thePeerage.com - Cynreou and others
		Beornwulf, King of Mercia was the son of Beorhtweald, Prince of Mercia.
		Wiglaf, King of Mercia was the son of Beornwulf, King of Mercia.
		Beorhtwulf, King of Mercia was the son of Beornwulf, King of Mercia.
	www.thepeerage.com /p15037.htm (736 words)

	Ludeca of Mercia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ludeca of Mercia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ludeca was the nineteenth King of (Click link for more info and facts about Mercia) Mercia, from (Click link for more info and facts about 826) 826 to (Click link for more info and facts about 827) 827.
		He became king after the death of (Click link for more info and facts about Beornwulf) Beornwulf in battle against the rebellious (Click link for more info and facts about East Angles) East Angles, but he too was killed in another failed attempt to subjugate them in the next year.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/ludeca_of_mercia.htm (131 words)

	King Lud's Entrenchments \| Folklore by Rhiannon \| The Modern Antiquarian \| King Lud's Entrenchments \| Folklore by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		King Lud's Intrenchments were long considered to be Saxon - the King Lud in question being Ludeca of Mercia (a bit too far for King Lud, legendary founder of London?).
		However, it's now thought that the bank and ditches are prehistoric and part of an extensive boundary system stretching from Northamptonshire to the Humber: the 'Jurassic Spine'.
		Near the barrows is an area known as 'The Tent', a small quarry where legend has it King Lud kept his horses (according to Leonard Cantor in his 'Scheduled Ancient Monuments of Leicestershire and Rutland' (1993) - other info from the EH record accessed at MAGIC).
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /post/30011 (169 words)

	Simon Keynes: Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography, Section F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The denouement can be seen in terms of a Cup Final between Mercia and Wessex (Bassett, in C130, pp.
		The Coinage of Berhtwulf of Mercia (840-852)', in M123, pp.
		The 'kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons' was a distinctively Alfredian political order, reflecting the circumstances which came to prevail during the 880s, and expressing inits title the amalgamation of 'English' Mercia with the 'Saxon' territories of Wessex, Sussex, and Kent.
	www.wmich.edu /~medinst/research/rawl/keynesbib/bibliof.htm (4453 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		Finally, in the south the Saxons, who would remain an important power on the continent, established the Kingdoms of the South Saxon, Sussex, of the East Saxons, Essex, and of the West Saxons, Wessex.
		If a contemporary was betting on which English Kingdom would have dominated the others, Mercia might long have seemed the one poised to do so, as it was larger and bordered on most of the others.
		After Offa, however, Mercia began to lose its grip and the advantage passed to Wessex.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (6301 words)

	List of monarchs of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'''A list of the Kings etc. of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia' This was a time when spellings varied widely, even within a document.
		A number of variations of the details below exist.
		As ealdorman of Anglo-Saxon West Mercia under the King of Wessex
	www.findterm.net /li/list-of-monarchs-of-mercia.html (307 words)

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