mercia in English

noun
1
a former kingdom in central England. It was established by invading Angles in the 6th century in the border areas between the new Anglo-Saxon settlements in the east and the Celtic regions in the west.

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1. Our own youngest brother fled to Mercia.

2. We're still in Mercia and they'll be looking for us.

3. We are met to decide how to deal with Mercia.

4. Please join us to feast and celebrate the happy future of mercia.

5. I also need to return to mercia, as her true queen, by your good graces.

6. I also know that you have taken the crown of mercia from her head.

7. Who will lead our armies against mercia. And place its rightful queen at her throne?

8. She wasn't on the plane and West Mercia fraud squad have asked Interpol to investigate.

9. 7 Hygeberht's archdiocese, therefore, embraced Mercia and its dependent border territories in the midlands and East Anglia.

10. Aethelbald's accession broke the monopoly of royal power in Mercia by Penda and his descendants which had lasted over seventy years.

11. The 7th century saw a struggle for hegemony between Northumbria and Mercia, which in the 8th century gave way to Mercian preeminence.

12. About January 1066, Harold married Edith (or Ealdgyth), daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, and widow of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

13. Athelstan definition: ?895–939 ad , king of Wessex and Mercia (924–939 ad ), who extended his kingdom to Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

14. On the death of his father, Edward the Elder, in 924, Athelstan was elected king of Wessex and Mercia, where he had been brought up …

15. What does Athelstan mean? King of Mercia and Wessex (924?–939) who was the first Saxon ruler to establish his authority over all of England.

16. Edward the Elder Atheling (King of England) was born in 870, at birth place, to KONG ALFRED DEN STORE Atheling and Ealhswith of Mercia Atheling (born Dronning af Wessex)

17. In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the Great Heathen Army led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.

18. When she was about a year old, her father, King Oswiu of Northumbria, in thanksgiving for his victory over Penda of Mercia at the Battle of the Winwæd, handed her over to abbess Hilda to be brought up at Hartlepool Abbey.

19. So, if you value your life, and that of your son, then I suggest you sign the documents we have brought with us, reaffirming the fact that Mercia is a vassal state of Wessex, and must, in future, pay not only homage, but also taxes to Wessex