Ruler · 606 – 655

Penda of Mercia

Lived 606 – 655. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 632 – 655.

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Lived: 606 – 655; 49 years
In office: 23 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Mercia
Left it: died in battle; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 6th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

2 before

Cynewald545 – 580

Creoda of Mercia584 – 593

Pybba of Mercia593 – 606

Penda of Mercia632 – 655

Peada of Mercia655 – 656

Oswiu656 – 658

Wulfhere of Mercia658 – 675

19 after

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

Reigned 632 – 655 · 23 years · came to it aged 26

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in battleWikidata's manner of death: death in battle

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