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Penda of Mercia
Penda
(died 15 November 655) was a 7th-century
King
of
Mercia
, the
Anglo-Saxon kingdom
in what is today the
English Midlands
. A
pagan
at a time when
Christianity
was taking hold in many of the
Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms, Penda took over the
Severn Valley
in 628 following the
Battle of Cirencester
before participating in the defeat of the powerful
Northumbrian
king
Edwin
at the
Battle of Hatfield Chase
in 633.
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