Ruler · 801 – 852

Beorhtwulf of Mercia

Lived 801 – 852; monarch. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 840 – 852.

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Lived: 801 – 852; 51 years
In office: 12 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Mercia
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 26th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

22 before

Ecgberht829 – 830

Wiglaf of Mercia830 – 839

Wigmund of Mercia839 – 840

Beorhtwulf of Mercia840 – 852

Burgred of Mercia852 – 874

Edward the Elder918 – 924

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

Reigned 840 – 852 · 12 years

Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

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