Πέντα της Μερκίας
Ο Πέντα της Μερκίας (Penda, 606 - 15 Νοεμβρίου 655)Manuscript A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives the year as 655. Bede also gives the year as 655 and specifies a date, 15 November. R. L. Poole (Studies in Chronology and History, 1934) put forward the theory that Bede began his year in September, and consequently November 655 would actually fall in 654; Frank Stenton also dated events accordingly in his Anglo-Saxon England (1943).1 Others have accepted Bede's given dates as meaning what they appear to mean, considering Bede's year to have begun on 25 December or 1 January (see S. Wood, 1983: "Bede's Northumbrian dates again"). The historian D. P. Kirby suggested the year 656 as a possibility, alongside 655, in case the dates given by Bede are off by one year (see Kirby's "Bede and Northumbrian Chronology", 1963). βασιλιάς του Αγγλοσαξονικού βασιλείου της Μερκίας τον 7ο μ.Χ. αιώνα στην Αγγλική Μίντλαντς, μέλ