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Æthelred of Mercia
King of Mercia
- Child of Penda of Mercia and Cynewise
- Married to Osthryth
- Dated 7th century CE – 8th century CE
- Recognised as Saint
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
- 675 CE – 704 CE King of Mercia Succeeded Wulfhere of Mercia · Succeeded by Coenred of Mercia Has references
Family
The family of Æthelred of Mercia
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 11
Family 11
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Cynewise wife of King Penda of Mercia
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child of (child) Penda of Mercia 7th-century King of Mercia - of the house Iclingas
- parent of (child) Ceolred of Mercia 8th-century English monarch
- parent of (father) Ceolwald of Mercia 8th-century Mercian, possibly king
- sibling of Cyneburh Anglo-Saxon princess and saint
- sibling of Cyneswith Anglo-Saxon princess, saint
- sibling of Eadburh of Bicester English nun and saint
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sibling of Peada of Mercia King of Mercia -
sibling of Wulfhere of Mercia King of Mercia - married to Osthryth Anglo-Saxon Queen
Sources
Sources and evidence
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14 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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