Regents of Mercia
Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom located in central England. From the
middle of the seventh century to the beginning of the ninth century was
Mercia the most powerful state in Britain. But it lost that position in the
ninth century to Wessex and the remains of Mercia that was not conquered by
the Viking became a vassal state to Wessex until it finally was incorporated
into the unified English kingdom. The name Mercia is a Latin form of the
Germanic word "mark", which means borderland, and it is
derived from the fact that Mercia was the outermost Anglo-Saxon kingdom
bordering the Celtic states.
Kingdom of Mercia
House of Iclin
Mercia is 1071 partitioned into
several smaller earldoms |