Ruler · 700 – 716

Coenred of Mercia

Lived 700 – 716. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 704 – 709.

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

Lived: 700 – 716; 16 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Mercia
Left it: abdicated; the ruler's own article

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 11th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

7 before

Oswiu656 – 658

Wulfhere of Mercia658 – 675

Æthelred of Mercia675 – 704

Coenred of Mercia704 – 709

Ceolred of Mercia709 – 716

Ceolwald of Mercia716

Æthelbald of Mercia716 – 757

14 after

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

Reigned 704 – 709 · 5 years · came to it aged 4

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

In 709, Coenred abdicated and went on pilgrimage to Rome, where he remained as a monk until his death.

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