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1758: 167: 385:) which was later confirmed by Coenred. In the charter, Coenred refers to Offa as his underking. Coenred and his successor also confirmed grants to Waldhere, the Bishop of London, evidence that London was firmly under Mercian overlordship. Later Mercian kings treated London as their direct possession, rather than as a province ruled by an underking, but Coenred did not go that far. A grant of land in Herefordshire to a nun named Feleburg has survived, as have forged charters in Coenred's name granting privileges to 310: 416:, the letter illuminates the "confused relations of the southern English at a moment when they had no common overlord". The reduced prestige of both Coenred and his successor, Ceolred, may have stirred unrest among the Mercian nobility: Æthelbald was in exile during Ceolred's reign, and the survival of a hostile account of Ceolred may indicate a more general dissatisfaction with the ruling line. 329:, Mercia's northern boundary, the two annals have proved difficult to interpret: Coenred and Æthelred may have ruled jointly for two years before Æthelred abdicated, or the chroniclers may have recorded the same event twice, once from a source that was two years in error. According to the 8th-century life of 408:, that Coenred had invited him to a council to be held "about the reconciliation of Ælfthryth". Waldhere refused the invitation as he did not know Berhtwald's opinion on the matter, which was evidently important, although no other reference to it has survived. The letter describes a council to be held at 471:
of Northumbria, who was forced into a monastery. On the other hand, if Coenred went willingly, as Bede relates, then the apparently friendly relationship between Offa and Coenred, his overlord, makes it clear that the relationship between an overlord and his underking was not hostile in every case.
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Coenred appears to have been a very religious king. Bede tells a story of a companion of Coenred's whose sins led him to damnation despite Coenred's pleas that he should repent and reform. In 709 Coenred abdicated in favour of his cousin
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Coenred's reign is poorly documented, but a contemporary source records that he faced attacks from the Welsh. Coenred is not known to have married or had children, although later chronicles describe him as an ancestor of
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has suggested that they may not have relinquished their thrones voluntarily. There are instances of kings being forcibly removed and placed in holy orders to make them ineligible for kingship; one such was King
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in 685, reduced Northumbrian power and influence. There is evidence of Mercian activity in the south-east as well. Æthelred invaded Kent in 676, and charters survive in which he confirmed land grants made by
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Sims-Williams, Patrick (1976). "Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes". In Clemoes, Peter (ed.).
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Contigit itaque in diebus Coenredi Merciorum regis, cum Brittones, infesti hostes Saxonici generis, bellis, praedis, publicisque vastationibus Anglorum gentem deturbarent
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came to the throne of Mercia as the result of a coup, ending a three-year period of Northumbrian control. Wulfhere was succeeded on his death (in 675) by his brother
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Charters S 1801, S 1786, S 78, S 79, and S 80; see the listings under "Confirmation of land / privileges" and "Grant" in the "Events" section of
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s anonymous scribe appears to have incorporated much information recorded in earlier periods. Coenred is also mentioned in two 8th-century
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Huius temporibus duo reges Saxonum ad orationem apostolorum cum aliis pluribus venientes sub velocitate suam vitam, ut obtabant, finierunt
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race, were troubling the English with their attacks, their pillaging, and their devastations of the people " To counter such attacks,
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was limited both before and during Coenred's reign. In a surviving letter (written in 704 or 705), Waldhere, Bishop of London, tells
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as the reason for Coenred's decision, though this is probably guesswork. Coenred was accompanied by the East Saxon king
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succeeded to the throne in 675 on Wulfhere's death. In 704, Æthelred abdicated in favour of Coenred to become a monk.
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Wormald, Patrick (1991). "The Age of Bede and Æthelbald". In Campbell, John; Eric, John; Wormald, Patrick (eds.).
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relates how he summoned Coenred and made him swear to support Wilfrid in his conflict with the church hierarchy.
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from 704 to 709. Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the English Midlands. He was a son of the Mercian king
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became a nun sometime after Wulfhere's death. Æthelred's decisive victory over the Northumbrians at the
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and that in 704 he became king of Mercia. As the "Southumbrians" were those who lived south of the
1462:(1991). "Cœnred king of Mercia 704-9". In Williams, Ann; Smyth, Alfred P.; Kirby, D. P. (eds.). 1798: 1780: 386: 282: 191: 1657: 359: 1732: 1315: 1300: 1162: 430: 229: 1637: 757: 299: 266: 151: 135: 48: 1722: 1687: 506: 354:: "in the days of Coenred King of the Mercians, the Britons the implacable enemies of the 351: 462:
Historians have generally accepted Bede's report of Coenred's and Offa's abdications, but
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Some surviving charters from Coenred's reign reveal him to have been the overlord of the
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accompanied Coenred and Offa to Rome, but historians have treated this with scepticism.
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to mediate between the kings of the East and West Saxons. In the view of the historian
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By the 7th century, England was divided into kingdoms ruled almost entirely by the
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King of Mercia during the temporary separation of Mercia and Wessex
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Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia
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Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia
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Feryok, Marge (2001). "Offa's Dyke". In Zaluckyj, Sarah (ed.).
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Gestorum Pontificum Romanorum 1. Berlin; tr. Raymond Davis,
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records that in 702 Coenred succeeded to the kingdom of the
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would have limited Mercian opportunities in that direction.
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Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. – A.D. 871
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Coenred's sparsely documented reign is mentioned in the
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Campbell, John; John, Eric; Wormald, Patrick (1991).
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Wormald, "The Age of Bede and Æthelbald", p. 95.
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Yorke, "The Origins of Mercia" in Brown & Farr,
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The 213:The main source for this period is 13: 1756: 1054:Bede, HE, V, 19, pp. 299–300. 210:, Coenred's paternal grandfather. 14: 1876: 1520: 1195:. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 186:. Neighbouring kingdoms included 1403:. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 528:, "Geneological Tables: Table I" 481:Sighere, king of the East Saxons 1010: 876: 820: 742: 1422:. Cambridge University Press. 1212:, ed. Theodor Mommsen (1898). 557: 544: 531: 518: 1: 1155:Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac 1073: 677:. Retrieved 20 December 2008. 1850:8th-century English monarchs 1285:. Logaston: Logaston Press. 7: 1444:. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1306:History of the Anglo-Saxons 1191:Whitelock, Dorothy (1961). 750:"Charters of St. Paul's: 2" 526:History of the Anglo-Saxons 10: 1881: 1382:The Earliest English Kings 1153:Colgrave, Bertram (1956). 754:Trinity College, Cambridge 16:8th-century King of Mercia 1789: 1768: 1754: 1573: 1399:Lapidge, Michael (1999). 1367:. Oxford University Press 1320:. 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Index

King of Mercia
Æthelred
Ceolred
Dynasty
Iclingas
Wulfhere
Eormenhild
Christian
fl.
Mercia
Wulfhere
Æthelred
Wigstan
Bede
Æthelred
Ceolred

Anglo-Saxons
Mercia
English Midlands
Northumbria
East Anglia
Wessex
Essex
kingdom of Kent
Penda of Mercia
Bede
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Charters
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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