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Icel (Mercia) ap Eomer (abt. 470)

Icel "1st King of the Iclinga" ap Eomer formerly Mercia
Born about in Angeln, Jutland, Denmarkmap
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Died [date unknown] in East Anglia, Englandmap
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Biography

Icel is the first identifiable member of a dynasty that would rule the kingdom of Mercia, possibly the leader of the first party to arrive in England from the Anglian territory, now Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic coast of Germany.

Occupation: King of Mercia, ca 527-?

Also known as Isung (Ichel) the Angle ( perhaps Angel) of Mercia.

Icel is said to have been a King of the Iclingas. He is listed at [1]

The Mercian dynasty was named after him.

Iclingas

"The Iclingas (also Iclings or House of Icel) were a dynasty of Kings of Mercia during the 7th and 8th centuries, named for Icel or Icil, great-grandson of Offa of Angel, a legendary or semi-legendary figure of the Migration Period who was in turn made to descend from Woden by the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. The Iclingas reached the height of their power under Offa of Mercia (r. 757–796), who achieved hegemony over the other Anglo-Saxon states, and proclaimed himself "King of the English", but the dynasty lost control of Mercia soon after his death. [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Wikipedia: List_of_monarchs_of_Mercia Accessed 9/15/2019 jhd
  2. ↑ Wikipedia: Iclingas Accessed 9/15/2019 jhd

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Acknowledgment

This person was created through the import of LJ Pellman Consolidated Family_2011-03-21.ged on 21 March 2011.





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Anonymous Damewood
Ap Eomer-1 and Mercia-228 appear to represent the same person because: They're the same person. This appears to be where the duplicates stop when going backwards through time, so I would like to point out that it seems a bit weird to see the Mercian royal family use Welsh naming conventions (Ap_Eomer-1), so regardless of the state of the respective profiles of this batch of people, I've proposed merging them all into the Mercia-### profiles because I think it would probably make more sense name-wise. Do it however you want. I'm simply pointing out doubles and trying to help. Thanks.

Edit: When the profiles are eventually merged, I would propose that the family name of Icel's descendants be changed to Iclingas or Icling. While they are generally synonomous with the Mercian throne, they didn't have a monopoly on it.

posted on Ap Eomer-1 (merged) by Anonymous Damewood
edited by Anonymous Damewood
Anonymous Damewood
Ap Eomer-1 and Mercia-228 appear to represent the same person because: They're the same person. This appears to be where the duplicates stop when going backwards through time, so I would like to point out that it seems a bit weird to see the Mercian royal family use Welsh naming conventions (Ap_Eomer-1), so regardless of the state of the respective profiles of this batch of people, I've proposed merging them all into the Mercia-### profiles because I think it would probably make more sense name-wise. Do it however you want. I'm simply pointing out doubles and trying to help. Thanks.

Edit: When the profiles are eventually merged, I would propose that the family name of Icel's descendants be changed to Iclingas or Icling. While they are generally synonomous with the Mercian throne, they didn't have a monopoly on it.

posted by Anonymous Damewood
edited by Anonymous Damewood
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Of Mercia-55 and Mercia-228 appear to represent the same person because: based on unique name, are these the same person?
posted by Robin Lee

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