Peada of Mercia information

Peada (died 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...

king of Mercia; Oswiu set up Peada as an under-king; but in the spring of 656 he was murdered and Oswiu assumed direct control of the whole of Mercia. A...

The Kingdom of Mercia 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...

Peada, succeeded his father in 654 as King of Mercia, married Ealhflæd, daughter of King Oswiu Wulfhere, King of Mercia 658–675; married Ermenilda of...

mid-Trent Valley. Peada of Mercia, son of Penda, was sub-king of the Middle Angles. Peada had agreed to become a Christian in return for the hand of Oswiu's daughter...

difficult mission to the Middle Angles, at the request of their sub-king Peada, part of a developing pattern of Northumbrian intervention in Mercian affairs. After...

own governors in Mercia after the deaths of Penda and Peada. This attempt to establish close control of Mercia failed in 658 when three Mercian leaders...

facto ruler of Norway from about 975 to 995 who was in favor of Norse paganism Palnetoke, legendary pagan foster-father of Sweyn's Peada of Mercia (died 656)...

possibly indicates a continuing sense of disunity or local particularism within Mercia. It is unlikely that Peada could have pursued so different a course...

Æthelberht of Kent before 601 (see Gregorian mission) Cenwalh of Wessex Cynegils of Wessex Sigeberht of East Anglia Riderch I of Alt Clut Peada of Mercia Edwin...

Iclings or House of Icel) were a dynasty of Kings of Mercia during the 7th and 8th centuries, named for Icel or Icil, great-grandson of Offa of Angel, a legendary...

in Mercia precisely through these channels. Part of the price of Oswiu's support for Peada as sub-king of the Middle Angles, during the period of Mercian...

Penda of Mercia secures dominance over the area of Middle Anglia, where he establishes his son Peada as ruler. Peada marries Alchflaed, daughter of King...

restored; Mercia itself was divided, with the northern part being taken by Oswiu outright and the southern part going to Penda's Christian son Peada, who had...

nobles of Mercia. Osthryth was not the first of her family to become a Mercian queen. Her sister Alhflæd had married Peada, King of South Mercia 654–656...

Northumbria and Mercia. He installs Penda's son Peada as client king of Mercia south of the River Trent. Æthelhere of East Anglia is also killed in the battle...

uncontested pope (see 654). Peada founds Peterborough Cathedral (Province of Canterbury). It becomes one of the first centres of Christianity in England....

land granted to him for that purpose by Peada of Mercia, who converted to Christianity and was briefly ruler of the smaller Middle Angles sub-group. His...

sons of Wulfere, the king of Mercia, second brother and successor of Peada. Having been privately baptized by St. Chad, bishop of Litchfield, about the year...

Igraine - mother of King Arthur Peada of Mercia - King of southern Mercia; helped found the monastery at Peterborough. Leonard of Noblac – Frankish noble...

(Wales) Li Daozong, prince of the Tang dynasty Peada, king of Mercia (Midlands) Sigebert III, king of Austrasia (or 660) Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, Arab general...

and Britons defeated. Oswiu of Northumbria then set up Peada as 'King' of Mercia under Northumbrian control. It was said of the battle that the river rose...

Ealhfrith as king of Deirans in Œthelwald's place. Penda's son Peada was installed as king of southern Mercia, while Oswiu took the north of the kingdom. Other...

of the Mercian royal family under Peada were baptised in AD 653.[citation needed] Soon a double abbey under an abbess was built. In 669 the Bishop of...

daughter of Oswiu's great rival Penda of Mercia. Shortly after, Alhflaed married Penda's son Peada. Alhflaed, a devout Christian, urged Peada to convert...