![]() It was there where he was crowned and spent many a Christmas.įor 300 years (between 600 and 900), known as Mercian Supremacy or the "Golden Age of Mercia", having annexed or gained submissions from five of the other six kingdoms of the Heptarchy ( East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex), Mercia dominated England south of the Humber estuary. Slightly earlier, King Offa seems to have favoured Tamworth. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was from Repton in 873–874 that the Great Heathen Army deposed the King of Mercia. Early in its existence Repton seems to have been the location of an important royal estate. The royal court moved around the kingdom without a fixed capital city. The name is still used as a geographic designation by a wide range of organisations: military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies. ![]() It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.Ī Latinisation of an Old English word derived from the Mercian Old English, Merce, meaning "borderland" (whence the Modern English words mark and march), the kingdom was rendered as Mierce or Myrce in the West Saxon dialect. Mercia ( / ˈ m ɜːr ʃ i ə, - ʃ ə, - s i ə/, Old English: Miercna rīċe Latin: Merciorum regnum) was one of the three main Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. ![]()
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