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	Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		The next two kings, Aethelred and Cenred son of Wulfhere, are better known for their religious activities; the king who succeeded them (in 709), Ceolred, is said in a letter of Saint Boniface to have been a dissolute youth who died insane.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercia (1228 words)

	Mercia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After his death Mercia suffered a three-year loss of ascendancy during which it was converted to Christianity by a Northumbrian mission.
		The victories of Egbert of Wessex in Mercia established him briefly as overlord.
		In 874, Mercia weakly succumbed to the invading Danish army, and ultimately the eastern part became (886) a portion of the Danelaw, while the western part was controlled by Alfred of Wessex.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mercia.asp (414 words)

	MERCIA - LoveToKnow Article on MERCIA
		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.
		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 A~thelred, 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 te the death of IEthelred, between 910 and 912.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MERCIA.htm (2877 words)

	Encyclopedia: Beornwulf of Mercia
		Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826.
		Coenwulf (or Cenwulf) (died 821) was King of Mercia from 796 to 821.
		The Kingdom of Kent was a kingdom of Jutes in southeast England, one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Beornwulf-of-Mercia (509 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mercia
		Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands.
		The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk", and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P.
		Mercia soon returned to the rule of her own king, but its days as the leading power of England had passed.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mercia (808 words)

	Business Wire: Mercia Software and Atrio Systems Form Partners... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercia Software is pleased to announce a partnership with Atrio Systems, Inc., to provide supply chain solutions to service parts and aftermarket manufacturers and distributors in the automotive industry.
		The combined expertise of Mercia Software and Atrio Systems will ensure that the specific business requirements of their customers are met and that there is a visionary foundation for customers to leverage in the future.
		Mercia's approach to every implementation is a "people + process + systems" philosophy designed to produce the fastest ROI possible.
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	MERCIA - Online Information article about MERCIA
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 Trent and its tributary streams.
		Following the murder of Æthelbald by one of his bodyguard in 757, a civil war followed, which was concluded with the victory of Offa.
		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.
	www.wikiverse.org /mercia (1076 words)

	Jeffersonville Assault Leads to Charges Against Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sixteen year old Ryan Mercia, of Morristown, was arraigned last week in Vermont District Court in Hyde Park for aggravated assault after he allegedly got into a fight and struck a man with a broken chair leg.
		Mercia, who pled guilty last fall and received a deferred sentence for prohibited acts and delivery of marijuana, was picked up on a new charge in Richmond after allegedly giving a false name to a Vermont State Police trooper.
		Mercia was lodged on a charge of aggravated assault and pled not guilty in court, in Hyde Park, Monday, May 14.
	www.newsandcitizen.com /back/5_24_2001/mercia.htm (694 words)

	Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercia''', sometimes spelled '''Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-SaxonsAnglo-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 neighbours included Northumbria, kingdom of PowysPowys, the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Kingdom of EssexEssex, and East Anglia.
		The Danes appointed a Mercian thegn, Ceolwulf II of MerciaCeolwulf II, as king in 873 while the remaining independent section of Mercia was ruled by Aethelred of MerciaAethelred, called an ealderman, not a king.
	www.infothis.com /find/Mercia (1252 words)

	Mercia, England (United Kingdom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A proposed flag for the Mercia historic region should the region be restored, according Flagmaster 103.
		Summarizing the article, Mercia was one of three kingdoms (Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex) that were consolidated from the Angle-Saxon heptarchy in the early 9th Century in England, and united with Wessex after the reconquest of the Danelaw in 973 under Edgar.
		It is a movement rooted in historical reality and intends to re-create Mercia as a legal autonomous entity, within the boundaries which existed prior to 1066 and within an English Confederation." The flag is intended to be adaptable for use by sub-units (i.e., counties) by adding a badge in the white field.
	www.flagspot.com /flags/gb-e-mer.html (632 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)

	BURGRED OF MERCIA - LoveToKnow Article on BURGRED OF MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		king of Mercia, succeeded to the throne in 852, and lfl 852 or 853 called upon JEthelwulf of Wessex to aid him in subduing the North Welsh.
		The request was granted and the campaign proved successful, the alliance being sealed by the marriage of Burgred to,~lthelswith, daughter of i~lthelwull.
		The armies of Wessex and Mercia did no serious fighting, and the Danes were allowed to remain through the winter.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURGRED_OF_MERCIA.htm (132 words)

	History of England, The Anglo Saxon Period
		The establishment of the Church at York was not possible until 625; the immense task of converting and then organizing the converted was mostly beyond the limited powers of Augustine, well-trained in monastic rule, but little trained in law and administration.
		Edwin of Northumbria's wife chose Paulinus as Bishop and the See of York was established, though later attacks from Penda of Mercia meant that only a limited kind of Christian worship took place in the North until around the middle of the eighth century.
		The dominance of Mercia was finally broken, the other kingdoms defeated in battle or voluntary submitted to his overlordship, and Egbert was recognized as Bretwalda, Lord of Britain, the first to give reality to the dream of a single government from the borders of Scotland to the English Channel.
	www.britannia.com /history/narsaxhist.html (3805 words)

	Business Wire: Mercia Software Announces Significant Progress ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercia Software, a leading global demand and supply chain planning solutions provider, announced that fiscal year 2001 sales in North America have more than doubled over FY 2000 and that substantial opportunity exists in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America for the coming year.
		Originally, slated for September 25-26, Mercia had to reschedule the meeting for November 13-14 after the tragic events of September 11.
		Miller attributes Mercia's successful 2001 market penetration in the U.S. to a sound business philosophy from 16 years of operating strictly in the demand planning/inventory optimization niche space.
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	ETHELBALD VAN MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethelbald was koning van Mercia (Engeland) van 735 tot 757.
		In het begin van zijn periode was de invloed van Wessex nog zeer groot, maar na de dood van koning Ine van Wessex in 726 veranderde dit.
		Cuthred was vastbesloten de hegemonie van Mercia over Wessex te beëindigen en hij versloeg Ethelbald in een slag in 752.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/E/Ethelbald_van_Mercia (326 words)

	Earl Aethelred of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 886, he was given control of London by King Alfred of Wessex, whose daughter, Ethelfleda, he married.
		As Alfred reconquered the Danelaw, it was useful to place the heir to the destroyed Kingdom of Mercia in control of its former area: this allowed the expansion of the Kingdom of Wessex to appear as the liberation of areas conquered by the Danes.
		Aethelred was recorded as fighting many battles against the Welsh, and at one point appealed to Alfred for help against him.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Earl_Aethelred_of_Mercia (196 words)

	Electronic Sawyer: Rulers of the Mercians: King Coenwulf (S 152-85)
		Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Wulfhard, priest; grant of 2 hides (manentes), equivalent to one sulung, at Swarling, Kent, and one 'yokelet' (an geocled) at Ecgheanng lond.
		A.D. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Beornmod, bishop; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) to the south of Rochester (at Borstal), Kent, with appurtenant swine-pastures in the Weald.
		Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; remission of renders due from Worcester and its dependent minsters, in exchange for the minster at Twyning, Gloucs., assessed at 3 hides (manentes), and 10 hides west of the Severn.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /sdk13/chartwww/eSawyer.99/S%20152-85.html (2803 words)

	Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercia's neighbors included Northumbria, Powys, the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia.
		Offa exerted himself to ensure that his son Ecgfrith 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.
		This hidage exists in several manuscript versions, some as late as the 14th century; it lists a number of peoples who have vanished, except for reminders in various place names.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/Mercia.htm (931 words)

	EBK: Penda, King of Mercia
		He certainly seems to have entered into a defensive pact with the joint-Kings of Wessex, Cynegils and Cwichelm, against the growing power of Northumbria; and it was sealed by the marriage of his sister to Cynegils' younger son, Cenwalh.
		Mercia was peaceful for the next seven years, but, in AD 642, the storm clouds gathered once more.
		Meantime, King Oswiu of Northumbria was having a hard time establishing his authority throughout Northumbria and, with an aggressive Mercia on his southern border, he tried to placate Penda by establishing a marriage alliance between his eldest son, Alcfrith, and the King of Mercia's daughter, Cuneburga.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/penda.html (977 words)

	Supply & Demand Chain Executive > Research > Archived Articles > Infor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys ...
		Mercia is to form the basis of a new demand planning group within Infor.
		In a statement, Infor said that the acquisition of Mercia is consistent with its global strategy of assembling software solutions and vertical expertise to build leadership positions in the manufacturing and distribution markets.
		Mercia offers two suites of supply chain planning products, which include demand planning, strategic inventory planning, distribution planning, and sales and operational planning functionality.
	www.isourceonline.com /article_arch.asp?article_id=6558 (513 words)

	West Mercia Probation Area: Media: Press releases
		Avril Gilmore, who has switched from West Mercia Probation's north Worcestershire area to a new role in the south of the county, is developing the area management structure through which she will be the main link with these groups.
		West Mercia Probation is continuing to increase its performance in the supervision of drug treatment testing orders - described as the 'mainstay' in the war against drug related crime.
		West Mercia Probation is currently recruiting 18 trainee probation officers to begin their two years of training in October.
	www.westmerciaprobation.org.uk /media/releases.html (2028 words)

	Penda of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Bede, who dates the events to 653, the latter marriage was made contingent upon the baptism/ and conversion to Christianity of Peada; Peada accepted this, and the preaching of Christianity began among the Middle Angles, whom he ruled.
		Here a king called Merewalh of the MagonsaeteMerewalh ruled over the Magonsaete/; in later centuries it was said that Merewalh was a son of Penda, but there is little basis for that claim, and Stenton considered more likely that he was a representative of a local dynasty that continued to rule under Mercian authority.
		With the defeat at the Winwaed, Oswiu came to briefly dominate Mercia, permitting Penda's son Peada to rule its southern portion.
	www.infothis.com /find/Penda_of_Mercia (2149 words)

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