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: A people of the Welsh border, also known as the Westerna, under Mercian control from the 7th century.
The cause of the conflict is also unknown: if Offa was ruling Kent before 776, the battle of Otford was probably a rebellion against Mercian control.
It is also said in Irish and northern English oral history that Ivar the Boneless, and in some accounts also Ubbe Ragnarsson, died not in the Mercian campaign, but drowned fighting the Hiberno-Norse in the Irish sea.
There is also evidence of South Saxon territory breaking away from West Saxon dominance in the early 720s, and this may indicate Æthelbald's increasing influence in the area, though it could have been Kentish, rather than Mercian, influence that was weakening West Saxon control.
A claim made in a ninth-century list of donations from the abbey of Gloucester that Æthelbald had " stabbed — or smitten " to death the kinsman of a Mercian abbess has also contributed negatively to his reputation.
This charter was witnessed only by Mercian bishops, and it is possible it had no effect outside Mercia, but it is also possible that it was essentially part of a reform programme inspired by Boniface and instigated at Clovesho.
car bomb outside Palace Barracks in County Down which is the headquarters of MI5 in Northern Ireland and also home to the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.
It was also at this time that the Hwicce came more definitely into the Mercian orbit.
The encouragement of the cult of royal saints in areas beyond the central Mercian lands also seems to have been a deliberate policy, and both Æthelred and Osthryth were later revered as saints at Bardney.
Essex also included London, and the diocese of London included Surrey ; this appears to have been a source of friction between Ine and the East Saxon and Mercian kings, until the province was transferred to the diocese of Winchester in 705.
Æthelheard's succession to the throne was disputed by an ætheling, Oswald, and it may be that Mercian support for Æthelheard in the unsettled aftermath of Ine's abdication both helped establish Æthelheard as king and also brought him into the sphere of influence of Æthelbald, the king of Mercia.
It appears that after Æthelstan's died, not only did Edmund lose control of Northumbria, but that the Five Burghs of the Mercian Danelaw also pledged themselves to Amlaíb mac Gofrith.
Coenred and his successor also confirmed grants to Waldhere, the Bishop of London, evidence that London was firmly under Mercian overlordship.
With the passage of time the lesser Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in this area during the period between Powys and Mercian rule.
The kingship also changed in Kent in 688, with Oswine, who was apparently a Mercian client, taking the throne ; and there is evidence of East Saxon influence in Kent in the years immediately following Cædwalla's abdication.
Hill's unmistakable style has also been subject to parody: Wendy Cope includes a parody of a ' Mercian Hymn ' in Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, and Ron Paste's parody ' Preach!
The minor Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in the area in the interlude between Powys and Mercian rule.
The Viking threat may also account for the evident cooperation in matters of currency between Mercia and Wessex which began in Beorhtwulf's reign and lasted until the end of the independent Mercian kingdom on the death of King Ceolwulf II in the years around 880.
Orders for variants of the guernsey have also come from the Intelligence Corps, the Mercian Regiment, the Tank Regiment and Gurkha Logistics where they form part of officer uniforms.
During his reign of Edward the Elder parts of old Derbyshire were also added to the Mercian kingdom.
Previously, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters of the British Army also held this title, however due to restructuring into the The Mercian Regiment, only one holder of this name now exists.
Mercian and both
Little is known about the history of the East Saxons during the eighth century, but what evidence there is indicates that both London and Middlesex, which had been part of the kingdom of Essex, were finally brought under Mercian control during the reign of Æthelbald.
Æthelred's support for Wilfrid embroiled him in dispute with both Canterbury and Northumbria, and it is not clear what his motive was, though it may be relevant that some of Wilfrid's monasteries were in Mercian territory.
Subsequently, the areas came under Mercian control and today they are claimed by movements for autonomy in both Wessex and Mercia.
It may be compared to both Offa's Dyke ( later, and forming a Mercian border with Wales ) and Hadrian's Wall ( earlier and forming a border with Scotland ) as one of the largest defensive earthworks in the United Kingdom.
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.
The reduced prestige of both Ceolred and his predecessor, Coenred, 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.
The causes of the fluctuating fortunes of Mercia and Wessex are a matter of speculation, but it may be that Carolingian support influenced both Egbert's ascendancy and the subsequent Mercian recovery.
Not all the locations named in the Chronicle can be identified, but it is apparent that the West Saxons were fighting in north Somerset, south Gloucestershire, and north Wiltshire, against both British and Mercian opposition.
There are two football clubs — Ketley Bank United and Ketley Town — both play in the Mercian Regional Football League.
Under the Army 2020 reorganisation, the 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment ( Staffords ) and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh ( Royal Regiment of Wales ) will both be disbanded, while the Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ) will be transferred to the administration of the Prince of Wales ' Division
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If Hart's suggestion that Ælfgifu was of royal Mercian descent and related to the latter family is correct, it might have been hoped that the marriage would give Eadwig some political advantage in exercising West-Saxon control over Mercia.
Mercian and English
Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.
The region finally became an English shire in the 10th century, on the merger of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms.
J. R. R. Tolkien is one of many scholars who have studied and promoted the Mercian dialect of Old English, and introduced various Mercian terms into his legendarium – especially in relation to the Kingdom of Rohan, otherwise known as the Mark ( a name cognate with Mercia ).
Not only is the language of Rohan actually represented as the Mercian dialect of Old English, but a number of its kings are given the same names as monarchs who appear in the Mercian royal genealogy, e. g. Fréawine, Fréaláf and Éomer ( see List of kings of the Angles ).
The overlordship of the southern English which had been exerted by Æthelbald appears to have collapsed during the civil strife over the succession, and it is not until 764, when evidence emerges of Offa's influence in Kent, that Mercian power can be seen expanding again.
Tolkien rendered Rohirric as the Mercian dialect of Old English.
Sir Frank Stenton described it as " One of the most decisive battles of English history ", effectively ending the Mercian supremacy over the English kingdoms and establishing West Saxon dominance in southern England.
The Old English Martyrology is a Mercian collection of hagiographies.
Later the early English royalty are said to have stayed there, the Mercian Kings having used it as a base for hunting in the nearby Sherwood Forest.
Its modern form is believed to have come into modern English by way of Mercian, and that is likely to have been taken from the early Celtic word Wrikon.
King Alfred the Great was later to translate the code into Old English as the basis of Mercian Laws, believing them to have been named after the much later Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
Rhodri the Great and his son Gwriad were killed, fighting the English, in 878, and Ceolwulf is presumed to have been the leader of the Mercian army.
Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old English devised and employed by modern scholars.
The Old English Martyrology is a collection of over 230 hagiographies, probably compiled in Mercia, or by someone who wrote in the Mercian dialect of Old English, in the second half of the 9th century.
* Biddulph, Joseph ( 2004 ) The Mercian Language: Introduction to the English Midlands Dialect of Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English.
It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian ( known collectively as the Anglian dialects ), and West Saxon.
Part of it was paraphrased in the West Mercian dialect of Middle English by the author of the Katherine Group.
Ancient Irish annals record the population of Wirral by Norsemen led by Ingimund, having been expelled from Ireland around 902 and getting agreement from Aethelflaed or " Ethelfleda ", Queen of the Mercian English to settle there peacefully.
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