Eowa's name (spelled Eaƿa, with the letter wynn) in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
King of Mercia
Reign
c. 626 – 5 August 642 AD
Predecessor
Cearl
Successor
Penda
Died
5 August 642 AD at the Battle of Maserfield
Issue
Alweo Osmod
Dynasty
Iclingas
Father
Pybba
Eowa (or Eawa) (d. 642) was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; he was possibly King of Northern Mercia, as the 8th-century Historia Brittonum reports that he was co-ruler with his brother Penda.
Eowa (or Eawa) (d. 642) was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; he was possibly King of Northern Mercia, as the 8th-century...
including Penda, but that Penda and EowaofMercia were those best known to its author. (Many of these 12 sons of Pybba may merely represent later attempts...
was an early King ofMercia. He was the son of Creoda and father of Penda and Eowa. Unusually, the names Pybba and Penda are likely of British Celtic, rather...
The Kingdom ofMercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century...
656), a son of Penda, was briefly King of southern Mercia after his father's death in November 655 and until his own death at the hands of his wife in...
AD) was King ofMercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant ofEowa, Offa came to...
Iclings or House of Icel) were a dynasty of Kings ofMercia during the 7th and 8th centuries, named for Icel or Icil, great-grandson of Offa of Angel, a legendary...
was killed in the Battle of Maserfield while fighting the forces of Penda ofMercia, who then himself was defeated by Oswald's brother Oswiu. Oswald's...
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Yorkshire, England). It pitted the Northumbrians against an alliance of Gwynedd and Mercia. The Northumbrians were led by Edwin and the Gwynedd-Mercian alliance...
Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae, Penda's brother Eowa, also said to have been a king of the Mercians, was killed in the battle along with Oswald...
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