Beornred of Mercia

• Preferred Name: Beornred of Mercia
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GWYS-8PT
  
• Death: 769 in Kingdom of Mercia
  
• Birth: ABT 730
  
• Notes:

  === History ===
  Poor old Beornred… no-one even knows how he came to power (he was no apparent relation to any of the kings before him)! The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle writes that Beornred succeeded Æthelbald to the throne, but that he held it “but a little while, and unhappily and unprosperously; for King Offa the same year put him to flight, and assumed the government, and held it 39 years…”