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Annales Cestrienses
… 642 S. Oswald, king [of Northumbria], was killed. dclv Penda rex periit et Mercii facti sunt christiani. 655 Penda, king [of Mercia], was slain, and the Mercians became …
Magna Britannia
… which have been found there. In 633, we are told that Penda, king of the Mercians, besieged Exeter, then held by … a time came to its relief, and fought a battle here with Penda, who was defeated and taken prisoner. 3 In the year …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… de Winchelcumba, i. (1892) introd. p. vii, note. Sc. Penda. The verse in the manuscript is defective. This gloss …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Mercia or Middle Anglia it seems to have been subsumed by Penda into Mercia in the 7th century and to have remained …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… an estate that had belonged to their grandfather King Penda. 30 In Ceolred's reign a nun gave her 8 hides at … hundred, 38 and Little Wenlock 39 north-west of Madeley. Penda's 'Wrye' was perhaps among those estates. 40 Little … For the relationships see Yorke, op. cit. 104. The name Penda is rare: P.N. Worcs. (E.P.N.S.), pp. xxii, 223. Below, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 17 abbey, which he had founded, and there he lived, till Penda, that wicked King of Mercia, with his heathenish … character of a good man, but was in continual wars with Penda and his heathens, whom he withstood nineteen years, 18 … 655, according to the Saxon Chronicle, and siding with Penda, against his own brother and kinsman, was deservedly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… seat of King Oswy; and it was here that the Saxon kings Penda and Segebert received the rite of baptism from Finan, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the battle of Winwidfield, in which he defeated and killed Penda, the pagan king of Mercia, who had invaded his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants; from whom, however, it was taken in 628, by Penda, King of Mercia, whose son Wulfhere, on his accession …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an attack of the Britons under Cadwallo, assisted by Penda, King of Mercia, the city suffered severely from the …