Peada son of Penda was the sub-king of the Middle Angles who had converted to Christianity and married a Northumbrian princess. He was murdered at Easter 656, allegedly through the treachery of his own wife. The killing removed the one Mercian prince who had been close to Northumbria and ensured the Mercian recovery would be on purely Mercian terms.
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