Peada

Family: Mercians · Role: king · First appears: A.D. 626–655

Life events

• 656 · Peada was slain.(A.D. 656–660)
  • “A.D. 656. This year was Peada slain”
• 656 · Peada and Wulfhere were brothers.(A.D. 656–660)
  • With: Wulfhere
  • “My brother Peada”

A.D. 626–655

• parent: Penda “when Peada, the son of Penda, assumed the government of the Mercians.”
• protégé: Saxulf “And they began the groundwall, and wrought thereon; after which they committed the work to a monk, whose name was Saxulf.”

A.D. 656–660

• siblings with Wulfhere “for the love of his brother Peada”
• with Oswy (They began a minster together.) “My brother Peada and my beloved friend Oswy began a minster, for the love of Christ and St. Peter: but my brother, as Christ willed, is departed from this life;”

A.D. 661–684

• siblings with Wulfhere “my brother Peada, and my brother Wulfere, and my sisters, Kyneburga and Kyneswitha”
• siblings with Ethelred son of Penda “my brother Peada, and my brother Wulfere, and my sisters, Kyneburga and Kyneswitha”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.