NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ludeca of Mercia

Ludeca was the nineteenth King of Mercia, from 826 to 827. He became king after the death of Beornwulf in battle against the rebellious East Angles, but he too was killed in another failed attempt to subjugate them in the next year. The Kingdom of Mercia at its greatest extent (7th to 9th centuries) is shown in green, with the original core area (6th century) given a darker tint. ... Events The Danish king accepts Christianity. ... Events Succession of Pope Valentine, then Pope Gregory IV. Arabs invade Sicily. ... Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826. ... Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ...

Prior to his rule, he was mentioned in two charters from 824 as a dux under Beornwulf.^[1] Events Iñigo Arista revolts against the Franks and establishes the kingdom of Navarre (approximate date). ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum holds a coin minted during Ludeca's reign. It is thought the silver penny was minted at Ipswich and the moneyer's name was Wærbeald. The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet. ... Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced ) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ...

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Categories: British nobility stubs | 827 deaths | Mercian monarchs Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826. ... A list of the Kings etc. ... Events The Danish king accepts Christianity. ... Events Succession of Pope Valentine, then Pope Gregory IV. Arabs invade Sicily. ... Wiglaf, son of the late king Beornwulf, was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 840. ... A list of the Kings etc. ... Icel (or Icil) (? - c. ... Cnebba was the father of Cynewald, the grandfather of Creoda of Mercia, and the son of Icel. ... Cynewald (6th century) was the father of Creoda of Mercia, the son of Cnebba, and the grandson of Icel. ... Creoda (or Crida) (c. ... Pybba (570?–606/15) (also Pibba, Wibba, Wybba) was an early King of Mercia. ... Cearl was the third king of Mercia, from about 606 to about 626. ... Stained glass window from the cloister of Worcester Cathedral showing the death of Penda of Mercia. ... Eowa (or Eawa) was a son of the Mercian king Pybba and a brother of the Mercian king Penda; according to the Historia Brittonum1 and the Annales Cambriae,2 Eowa was a king of the Mercians himself at the time of the Battle of Maserfield (or Cogwy), in which he... Peada (died 656), a son of Penda, was briefly King of southern Mercia after his fathers death in November 655[1] until his own death in the spring of the next year. ... Oswiu (612â€“February 15, 670), also written as Oswio, Oswy, and Osuiu was an Anglo-Saxon Bretwalda. ... Wulfhere (d. ... For the later earl, see Earl Aethelred of Mercia. ... Cenred (or Coenred, Coinred, Kenred) ruled the Anglo_Saxon kingdom of Mercia from 704 to 709. ... Ceolred (d. ... Ceolwald may have briefly reigned in Mercia in 716, in succession to his brother, Ceolred of Mercia. ... Ethelbald (or Ã†thelbald) (died 757) was the King of Mercia in England from 716 until his death. ... Beornrad was briefly King of Mercia in 757, following the murder of Æthelbald. ... Offa (died July 26/29, 796) was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death. ... Ecgfrith (died December 796) was a King of Mercia who briefly ruled in the year 796. ... Coenwulf (or Cenwulf) (died 821) was King of Mercia from 796 to 821. ... Cenelm was a son of King Coenwulf of Mercia who, according to some sources, reigned as a seven-year-old child for a few months after his fathers death in 821, but was murdered. ... Ceolwulf I was the seventeenth King of Mercia, from 821 to 823. ... Beornwulf (died 826) was the King of Mercia from 823 to 826. ... Wiglaf, son of the late king Beornwulf, was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 840. ... Egbert (also Ecgbehrt or Ecgbert, means roughly The shining edge of a blade) (c. ... Wiglaf, son of the late king Beornwulf, was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 840. ... Wigmund may have briefly reigned in Mercia in about 840, in succession to his father, Wiglaf of Mercia. ... Wigstan was the twenty-third king of Mercia, possibly during 840. ... Beorhtwulf was the twenty-fourth king of Mercia, from 840 to 852. ... Burgred or Burhred or Burghred was the last king of Mercia (852 - 874). ... Ceolwulf II was the twenty-sixth king of Mercia, during 873 to 879. ... Earl Ã†thelred (d. ... Ethelfleda (alternative spelling Aethelfled, Ã†thelfleda or Ã†thelflÃ¦d) (872/879?-918) was the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith. ... Aelfwynn was the only daughter of Earl Aethelred of Mercia and his wife and successor Ethelfleda. ... The Kingdom of Kent was a kingdom of Jutes in southeast England, one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon heptarchy. ... The Kingdom of the East Angles (one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy) was founded in the 6th century. ... Alfred (also Ã†lfred from the Old English: Ã†lfrÄ“d //) (c. ... Edward the Elder (Old English: Ä’adweard se Ieldra) (c. ...