Penda brought the Middle Angles under direct Mercian royal control by making his son Peada their sub-king, following Peada conversion to Christianity as a condition of marrying Alhflaed daughter of Oswiu. This was the political and military absorption of the peoples between Mercia and East Anglia.
The size of the opposing forces is not recorded in the surviving sources.
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