3 events with tag "Mercia"
642
ID: 2546
Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia kills Oswald of Northumbria, Oswald dismembered and becomes martyr
ID: 2546
757
ID: 2621
Offa becomes King of Mercia - begins 39-year reign, most powerful English king before Wessex supremacy
ID: 2621
975
ID: 5855
Aelfhere of Mercia leads anti-monastic reaction - restores expelled secular clergy, seizes monastic lands, violent confrontations
ID: 5855