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Eowa, king of Mercia

Historical image related to Eowa, king of Mercia from August 5, 642

Eowa of Mercia

7th-century King of Mercia

Eowa was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; he was possibly King of Northern Mercia, as the 8th-century Historia Brittonum reports that he was co-ruler with his brother Penda.
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Mercia

Kingdom in the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy (527–918)

Mercia was one of the principal kingdoms founded at the end of Sub-Roman Britain; the area was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.
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