Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Pybba (Mercia) of Mercia
and [mother unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Father of
Peada (Mercia) of Mercia and Wilburga (Penda) of Mercia
Died
at about age 49
in Cock Beck, England
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Biography
Unusually, the names Pybba and Penda are likely of British Celtic, rather than Germanic, origin. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Higham, Nicholas J.; Ryan, Martin J. (2013), The Anglo-Saxon World, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12534-4, p. 143
- Penda mentioned in pp 26, 33 in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle annotated by Michael Swanton pub: Psychology Press 1998
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