Beornred (
Old English
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: ''Beornrǣd'') (? – 757) was a Mercian
Thane
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who was briefly
King of Mercia in 757.
[ Beornred ascended the throne following the murder of King Æthelbald. However, he was defeated by Offa and forced to flee the country, and was killed that same year.][ There is very little information about him, and the mentions of him are commonly brief.
According to the '']Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of ...
'', in 757: "...Æthelbald, king of Mercia, was killed at Seckington, and his body rests at Repton; and he ruled 41 years. And then Beornred succeeded to the kingdom, and held it a little while and unhappily; and that same year Offa put Beornred to flight and succeeded to the kingdom, and held it for 39 years..." According to Ingulf, an 11th-century Benedictine abbot, Beornred was regarded as a tyrant, while Roger of Wendover, a thirteenth-century chronicler, states that he was an unjust king and that the people of Mercia rose in rebellion against him.
See also
* Kings of Mercia family tree
References
External links
*
Mercian monarchs
Burials at St. Wystan's Church, Repton
8th-century English monarchs
769 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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