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	Lady of the Mercians
		he was the eldest daughter of Alfred.It was after the death of her husband Aethelred in the year 910 that she became known as the Lady of the Mercians, for she took over the ruling of Mercia.
		She was an extraordinary woman and she planned and led expeditions against the Vikings personally.She was of great assistance to Edward the Elder (her brother) in his conquest of the Five Boroughs.
		The picture on the right shows the statue of Aethelflaeda and her nephew Athelstan before it was set upon it's plinth in the Castle Grounds in 1913 to mark the Tamworth Millenary.
	members.tripod.com /kiffg/efleda.htm (139 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Iclingas & Mercians
		Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Iclingas and Mercians
		The early Mercians held the main border between the Britons, and the Saxons and Angles in the emerging Engla-land, and were instrumental in pushing back the borders of British kingdoms such as Cynwidion and Pengwern (which at this time still stretched out to the east of modern Birmingham).
		Egbert of Wessex defeats the mighty Mercians at the Battle of Ellandon.
	www.history.kessler-web.co.uk /KingListsBritain/EnglandMercia.htm (831 words)

	English language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about English language
		The ancestral forms of English were dialects brought from the northwest coastlands of Europe to Britain by Angle, Saxon, and Jutish invaders who gained footholds in the southeast in the 5th century and over the next 200 years extended and consolidated their settlements from southern England to the middle of Scotland.
		Scholars distinguish four main early dialects: of the Jutes in Kent (Kentish), the Saxons in the south (West Saxon), the Mercians or southern Angles in the Midlands (Mercian), and the Northumbrians or northern Angles north of the Humber (Northumbrian).
		However, with the rise of London as a metropolis and large-scale immigration from the surrounding area into the city, Midland (roughly corresponding to Mercian of the Old English period) gained predominance and a distinct metropolitan written dialect emerged.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /English+language (1096 words)

	Northvegr - Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
		After this he gave battle with a very small army against superior forces: indeed, it is reported that the pagans had three times the number of men; for they had thirty legions, led on by most noted commanders.
		King Oswald's son Etheiwald, who ought to have assisted them, was on the enemy's side, and led them on to fight against his country and uncle; though, during the battle, he withdrew, and awaited the event in a place of safety.
		The same King Oswy governed the Mercians, as also the people of the other southern provinces, three years after he had slain King Penda; and he likewise subdued the greater part of the Picts to the dominion of the English.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/bede/020.php (1515 words)

	Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At some point before the accession of Æthelbald, the Mercians conquered the region around 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.
		The power of the West Saxons under Egbert was rising during this period, however, and in 825 Egbert defeated the Mercian king Beornwulf (who had overthrown Ceolwulf in 823) at Ellendun.
		The Danes appointed a Mercian thegn, Ceolwulf II, as king in 873 while the remaining independent section of Mercia was ruled by Aethelred, called an ealderman, not a king.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercia (1334 words)

	Penda of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another Mercian king, Cearl, is mentioned by Bede as ruling at the same time as the Northumbrian king Æthelfrith, in the early part of the 7th century.
		Nicholas Brooks noted that, since these three accounts of the length of Penda's reign come from three different sources, and none of them are Mercian (they are West Saxon, Northumbrian, and Welsh), they may merely reflect the times at which their respective peoples first had military involvement with Penda.
		It was probably at some point during Oswald's reign that Penda fought with the East Angles and defeated them, killing their king Egric and the former king Sigebert, who had been brought out of retirement in a monastery against his will in the belief that his presence would motivate the soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penda (4976 words)

	Mercia - Cunnan
		Still, by 675, and the death of Wufhere, Penda's son, the Mercians had a minster, at Medhamsted, and were on at least their 3rd bishop.
		Later, in 853, the kingdoms allied to "conquer" North Wales, and the Mercian king married the daughter of Ethelwulf, King of the West Saxons.
		The Mercians paid up again in 872 and 873; in 874 their king was killed and his successor, Ceolwulf II, swore to the heathen service.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Mercia (535 words)

	Mercia
		While the earliest known king of Mercia was named Cearl, and is only known because he gave his daughter in marriage to Edwin, king of Deira, the first Mercian king we know more about than his name is Penda, who ruled c.632 - 654.
		The little that is known about Penda is through the hostile account of Bede, who disliked him both for being an enemy king to Bede's own Northumbria, but also for being a pagan.
		At some point before the accession of Æthelbald, the Mercians conquered the region around Wroxeter[?], known to the Welsh as "The Paradise of Powys." Elegies written in the persona of its dispossed rulers record the sorrow at this serious dispossession.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Mercia.html (676 words)

	Measham and the Mease Valley to 1300 AD
		As the kingdom grew then the lands which were known as Mercian changed until at it's height Mercia was seen to be all the lands between the Humber and the Thames and the whole of East Anglia and Kent.
		Mercian means border people - thus this would suggest that the people of Mercia were bordering onto the Romano - British.
		However, the peak of Mercian was passing and an example would be the removal of the Archbishopric from Lichfield.
	www.btinternet.com /~simonmarchini/History/mercian_history.htm (3970 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Edward the Elder
		Edward took a Mercian army to Thelwall, built a third fort there near the mouth of the Mersey, and sent another Mercian army to occupy and repair the fort of Manchester in Northumbria.
		The other event, recorded in the Mercian annals of the Chronicle, is that in December 918 Ælfwyn, the daughter of Æthelflæd and Æthelred, "was deprived of all authority in Mercia and taken into Wessex".
		In this context it is not at all surprising that Ælfwyn, and whatever aspirations the Mercians may have had for her continuing governorship, go unrecorded by the West Saxon annalist.
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder (4155 words)

	Darkfall WarCry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A high percentage of Mercians are unfree thralls, and members of this class are not allowed to wear colourful garments.
		The Mercians were dismayed by what they found, and upon returning to their home in the eastern ocean, they concluded that the fabled western civilization had fallen into chaos.
		She is called the Lady of Light, and Mercians believe she is engaged in an eternal war with the forces of darkness and chaos.
	df.warcry.com /scripts/faq/faq.phtml?category=1318&site=7&id=238 (3389 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Iclingas & Mercians
		The early Mercians held the main border between the Britons, and the Saxons and Angles in the emerging Engla-land, and were instrumental in pushing back the borders of British kingdoms such as Cynwidion and Pengwern (which at this time still stretched out to the east of modern Birmingham).
		By this time the Mercians also gain control of most of the former Middil Engle territory centred on Leicestershire, taking much of it from the East Engle.
		Egbert of Wessex defeats the mighty Mercians at the Battle of Ellandon.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandMercia.htm (686 words)

	5 Eng.
		And so, that he might also break the power of the Mercians, he urged the East Anglians to ready an army and invade the Mercians, for a little earlier he had renewed their pact and joined the East Anglians to himself in friendship and alliance.
		At the same time Alured defeated king Cevolph and gained the kingdom of the Mercians, and after having completed these great wars and toils, his preoccupations were to deserve well, first, of the Christian religion, second,of education in all the liberal arts, and third, of the commonwealth and men’s good morals.
		Elfreda was bestowed on a certain Ethelred, a leading man among the Mercians, with a poriton of Mercia received as her dowry.
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /polverg/5eng.html (8818 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 899 AD-977 AD
		Lady Aethelflaed of the Mercians begins to intrigue with diaffected factions within the Norse Kingdom of York and peacefully overruns the Borough of Leicester.
		Death of Lady Aethelflaed of the Mercians at Tamworth.
		- Lady Aelfwynn of the Mercians is brought to the court of her maternal uncle, King Edward the Elder of England, and deprived of her authority in Mercia.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime4.html (1592 words)

	Amazon.com: Mercians (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MERCIAN CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) by Inc Icon Group International and Ltd. Icon Group (Ring-bound - Oct 31, 2000)
		Mercian Geologist by East Midlands Geological Soc - Magazine Subscription
		Mercian & Welsh buses in camera by Malcolm Keeley (Unknown Binding - 1974)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Mercians&index=blended&page=1 (212 words)

	The Battle of Winwaed: The Venerable Bede's Account
		At length dire need compelled him to offer Penda an incalculable quantity of regalia and presents as the price of peace, on condition that he returned home and ceased his ruinous devastation of the provinces of his kingdom.
		His other son Egfrid was at the time held hostage at the court of Queen Cynwise in the province of the Mercians.
		This battle was won by King Oswy in the region of Loidis [Leeds] on the fifteenth of November in the thirteenth year of his reign, to the great benefit of both nations.
	www.winwaed.com /history/winwaed/bede.shtml (649 words)

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