The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Penda fought the West Saxons at Cirencester and that peace was made. The encounter consolidated Mercian control of the former Roman town and established the frontier between Mercia and Wessex in the upper Thames region. It was an early demonstration of Penda's aggressive expansionism that would define Mercia for a generation.
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