Penda o Mercia

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Stained glass windae frae the cloister o Worcester Cathedral kythin the daith o Penda o Mercia.
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Stained glass windae frae the cloister o Worcester Cathedral kythin the daith o Penda o Mercia.

Penda (dee'd November 15, 655Template:Fn) wis a 7t-century Keeng o Mercia, a kinrick in whit is the day the Inglis Midlands. A pagan at a tyme whan Christianity wis takkin haud in mony o the Anglo-Saxon kinrick, Penda participated in the defait o the pouerfu Northumbrian keeng Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633.Template:Fn Nine years later, he defaited an felled Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald, at the Battle of Maserfield; frae this pynt he wis liklin the maist pouerfu o the Anglo-Saxon rulers o the tyme. He defaited the Aest Angles, cawed the keeng o Wessex intil "fleme" for three years, an continued tae wauge weir agin the Bernicians o Northumbria. Thirteen years aifter Maserfield, he tholed a grushin defait an wis felled at the Battle of the Winwaed in the coorse o a hinmaist campaign agin the Bernicians.