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Penda of Mercia
7th-century King of Mercia
- Child of Pybba of Mercia
- Married to Cynewise
- Dated c. 606 CE – 15 November 655 CE
King of Mercia
King of Wessex
Offices on record
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.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
- 642 CE – 645 CE King of Wessex
Family
The family of Penda 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 · 13
Family 13
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 (father) Pybba of Mercia King of Mercia
- of the house Iclingas
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parent of (father) Æthelred of Mercia King of Mercia - parent of (child) Cyneburh Anglo-Saxon princess and saint
- parent of (child) Cyneswith Anglo-Saxon princess, saint
- parent of (child) Eadburh of Bicester English nun and saint
- parent of (child) Edith of Aylesbury saint
- parent of (child) Merewalh sub-king of the Magonsæte, a western cadet kingdom of Mercia
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parent of (father) Peada of Mercia King of Mercia - parent of (child) Wilburga of Mercia (est. 630 - )
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parent of (father) Wulfhere of Mercia King of Mercia -
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sibling of Eowa of Mercia Mercian king - married to Cynewise wife of King Penda of Mercia
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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
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