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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^ Frank Stenton, Anglo Saxon England (1943, 1971, 1998 Oxford paperback), page 231, note 3.
Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands.
A revolt in 657 resulted with the appearance of another son of Penda, Wulfhere, who ruled Mercia until he was defeated and killed in an invasion of Northumbria in 674.
Mercia soon returned to the rule of her own king, but its days as the leading power of England had passed.
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