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POLITICIAN

Penda of Mercia

606 - 655

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Penda (died 15 November 655) was a 7th-century king of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is today the 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. Nine years later, he defeated and killed Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald, at the Battle of Maserfield; from this point he was probably the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time, laying the foundations for the Mercian Supremacy over the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penda of Mercia has received more than 533,638 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Penda of Mercia is the 6,862nd most popular politician (down from 4,335th in 2019), the 1,444th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 977th in 2019) and the 229th most popular British Politician.

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  • 530k

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  • 55.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Penda of Mercia ranks 6,862 out of 15,577. Before him are Macrianus Minor, Takahashi Korekiyo, Geert Wilders, Haider al-Abadi, Emperor Suzaku, and John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne. After him are Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef, Faina Ranevskaya, and Leonardo Conti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 606, Penda of Mercia ranks 4. Before him are Abbad ibn Bishr, Rothari, and Chintila.  Among people deceased in 655, Penda of Mercia ranks 2. Before him is Pope Martin I.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Penda of Mercia ranks 1,444 out of 7,765. Before him are Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Gilbert Ryle (1900), Edward Fox (1937), George Young (1946), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), and Thomas Arne (1710). After him are Black (1962), Donovan (1946), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Anthony Trollope (1815), Edward the Exile (1016), and Jeremiah Clarke (1674).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Penda of Mercia ranks 229. Before him are Herbert Pitman (1877), Ed Miliband (1969), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Ælle of Sussex (500), Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), and Beorhtric of Wessex (800). After him are Edward the Exile (1016), Jeffrey Archer (1940), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944).

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