Ruler · 540 – 593

Creoda of Mercia

Lived 540 – 593. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 584 – 593.

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Lived: 540 – 593; 53 years
In office: 9 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Mercia
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 4th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

Icel of Mercia515 – 535

Cnebba535 – 545

Cynewald545 – 580

Creoda of Mercia584 – 593

Pybba of Mercia593 – 606

Penda of Mercia632 – 655

Peada of Mercia655 – 656

21 after

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

Reigned 584 – 593 · 9 years · came to it aged 44

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 593, the year they died

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