Wigmund may have briefly reigned in
Mercia
la, Merciorum regnum
, conventional_long_name=Kingdom of Mercia
, common_name=Mercia
, status=Kingdom
, status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex ()
, life_span=527–918
, era=Heptarchy
, event_start=
, date_start=
, y ...
about 840, in succession to his father,
Wiglaf of Mercia
Wiglaf (died 839) was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death. His ancestry is uncertain: the 820s were a period of dynastic conflict within Mercia and the genealogy of several of the kings of this time is unknown. Wigs ...
. He may, on the other hand, have predeceased his father and never been anything more than a co-ruler with him. He was himself the father of
Wigstan who later declined kingship. He married
Ælfflæd Ælfflæd is a name of Anglo-Saxon England meaning Ælf (Elf) and flæd (beauty). It may refer to:
* Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby (654–714)
* Ælfflæd of Mercia, daughter of Offa, wife of King Æthelred I of Northumbria
* Ælfflæd, wife of Edward ...
, daughter of
Ceolwulf I, which suggests that
Ceolwulf II was a descendant of Wigmund and the last king of the original Mercian dynasty. According to Ford Mommaerts-Browne, he may also have been the father of Eadburh, wife of
Æthelred Mucel
Æthelred Mucel was an Anglo-Saxon noble from Mercia who was the father of Ealhswith, the wife of Alfred the Great.
Æthelred witnessed several charters between 867 and 895; he may be the same man as an ealdorman called 'Mucel' who witnesse ...
, and mother of
Eahlswith.
[Keynes & Lapidge, ''Asser'', pp. 77; 240–41; Abels, ''Alfred the Great'', p. 121]
See also
*
Kings of Mercia family tree
The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the ...
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Mercian monarchs
9th-century English monarchs
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