Ruler · 601 – 716

Æthelred of Mercia

Lived 601 – 716; monarch. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 675 – 704.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 601 – 716; 115 years
In office: 29 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Mercia
Left it: abdicated; the ruler's own article

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 10th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

6 before

Peada of Mercia655 – 656

Oswiu656 – 658

Wulfhere of Mercia658 – 675

Æthelred of Mercia675 – 704

Coenred of Mercia704 – 709

Ceolred of Mercia709 – 716

Ceolwald of Mercia716

15 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 675 – 704 · 29 years · came to it aged 74

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: abdicatedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: abdicated

Osthryth was murdered in unknown circumstances in 697, and in 704 Æthelred abdicated, leaving the throne to Wulfhere's son Coenred. Æthelred became a monk at Bardney, a monastery which he had founded with his wife, and was buried there.

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