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Encyclopedia Britannica



PENDA

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 87 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PENDA , king of Mercia (d. 654 or 655), son of Pybba, probably came to the throne in 626, but it is doubtful whether he actually became king of Mercia until 633, the year of the defeat and death of Edwin of Northumbria. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle he was eighty years old at his death, but the energy of his administration and the evidence with regard to the ages of his children and relatives render it almost impossible. In 628 the Chronicle records a battle between him and the West
Saxons
  at Cirencester in that year. In 633 Penda and Ceadwalla overthrew Edwin at
Hatfield
  Chase; but after the defeat of the Welsh king at
Oswald
  at " Hefenfelth " in 634, Mercia seems to have been for a time subject to Northumbria. In 642 Penda slew
Oswald
  at a place called Maerfeld. He was continually raiding Northumbria and once almost succeeded in reducing Bamborough. He drove Cenwalh of Wessex, who had divorced his sister, from his throne. In 654 he attacked the
East
  Angles, and slew their king Anna (see
EAST
  ANGLIA). In 654 or 655 he invaded Northumbria in spite of the attempts of Oswio to buy him off, and was defeated and slain on the banks of the " Winwaed." In the reign of Penda the districts corresponding to Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire were probably acquired, and he established his son Peada as a dependent prince in Middle Anglia. Although a
pagan
 , he allowed his daughter Cyneburg to marry Alchfrith, the son of
Oswio, and it was in his reign that Christianity was introduced into Middle Anglia by his son Peada.
See Bede, Hist. Eccl. (ed. C. Plummer,
Oxford
 , 1896) ; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ed.
Earle
  and Plummer,
Oxford
 , 1899).


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