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PENDA , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Mercia (d. 654 or 655), son of Pybba, probably came to the See also:throne in 626, but it is doubtful whether he actually became king of Mercia until 633, the See also:year of the defeat and See also:death of See also:Edwin of See also:Northumbria. According to the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle he was eighty years old at his death, but the See also:energy of his See also:administration and the See also:evidence with regard to the ages of his See also:children and relatives render it almost impossible. In 628 the Chronicle records a See also:battle between him and the See also:West See also:Saxons at See also:Cirencester in that year. In 633 Penda and Ceadwalla overthrew Edwin at See also:Hatfield See also:Chase; but after the defeat of the Welsh king at See also:Oswald at " Hefenfelth " in 634, Mercia seems to have been for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time subject to Northumbria. In 642 Penda slew Oswald at a See also:place called Maerfeld. He was continually raiding Northumbria and once almost succeeded in reducing Bamborough. He drove Cenwalh of Wessex, who had divorced his See also:sister, from his throne. In 654 he attacked the See also:East Angles, and slew their king See also:Anna (see EAST ANGLIA). In 654 or 655 he invaded Northumbria in spite of the attempts of See also:Oswio to buy him off, and was defeated and slain on the See also:banks of the " Winwaed." In the reign of Penda the districts corresponding to See also:Cheshire, See also:Shropshire and See also:Herefordshire were probably acquired, and he established his son Peada as a dependent See also:prince in See also:Middle Anglia. Although a See also:pagan, he allowed his daughter Cyneburg to marry Alchfrith, the son of
Oswio, and it was in his reign that See also:Christianity was introduced into Middle Anglia by his son Peada.
See See also:Bede, Hist. Eccl. (ed. C. Plummer, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1896) ; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ed. See also:Earle and Plummer, Oxford, 1899).
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