Æthelbald of Mercia
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Æthelbald was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757. Æthelbald was the son of Alweo and thus a grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to the throne
The Repton Stone which may depict Æthelbald
Guthlac appears to Æthelbald in a dream in this roundel from the Guthlac Roll (early 13th century).
The Ismere Diploma, a charter of King Æthelbald's to Ealdorman Cyneberht in 736.
A 19th-century engraving of the crypt at St Wystan's Church, Repton where Æthelbald was interred
Mercia
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Mercia was an early medieval English kingdom, one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon period. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of Engla
Æthelbald of Mercia
…grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to the throne after the death of his cousin, King Ceolred, who had driven him into exile. During his long reign, Mercia became the dominant kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons, and recovered the position of pre-eminence it had enjoyed during the strong reigns of Mercian kings…
The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in a field in Hammerwich, near Lichfield in July 2009, is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England
The Lichfield Angel carving
Giant Mercia flag on Tamworth castle created by community groups in 2024