Editing Hwicce (section)

==Kings and ealdormen of the Hwicce==
No contemporary genealogy or list of kings has been preserved, so the following list has been compiled by historians from a variety of primary sources.<ref>''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England'', ed. M. Lapidge (Blackwell 1999), 507.</ref> Some kings of the Hwicce seem to have reigned in tandem for all or part of their reign. This gives rise to an overlap in the dates of reigns given below. Please consult individual biographies for a discussion of the dating of these rulers.

An [[ealdorman]] was a high-ranking royal official and prior magistrate of an Anglo-Saxon shire. The term was rendered in Latin as ''dux'', ''præfectus'' or ''comes''.
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|||628||Kingdom conquered by [[Penda of Mercia]].
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|colspan=3" align="center"|'''Kings'''
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|[[Eanhere]]|| mid-7th century ||
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|[[Eanfrith of Hwicce|Eanfrith]]|| mid-7th century || Brother of Eanhere.
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|[[Osric of the Hwicce|Osric]]|| active 670s|| Entombed in [[Gloucester Cathedral]].
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|[[Oshere]]|| active 690s|| Brother of Osric. Died before 716.
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|[[Æthelheard of the Hwicce|Æthelheard]]|| active 709 || Son of Oshere. Issued charter with Æthelweard.
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|[[Æthelweard of the Hwicce|Æthelweard]]|| active 709 || Son of Oshere.
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|[[Æthelric, king of the Hwicce|Æthelric]]|| active 736|| Son of Oshere.
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|[[Eanberht]]|| active 750s|| Not recorded after 759.
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|[[Uhtred of Hwicce|Uhtred]]|| active 750s&nbsp;– 779||
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|[[Ealdred of Hwicce|Ealdred]]|| active 750s&nbsp;– 778||
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|||780s|| Assimilation of the Hwicce into Mercia is completed.
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|colspan=3" align="center"|'''Ealdormen'''
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|[[Æthelmund]]||''c.'' 796-802||Died in battle 802.<ref>''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''.</ref>
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|?[[Æthelric son of Æthelmund|Æthelric]]||''fl.'' 804||Son of Æthelmund. His will of 804 requests burial at [[Deerhurst]].<ref>Charter ''S 1187'', 1. BL Cotton Nero E. i, pt 2, 181v (s. xi; short version) 2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 49r-50r (s. xi1) 3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 198v-199v (s. xi2)[http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1187 S1187]</ref>
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|[[Leofwine, Earl of Mercia|Leofwine]]||d.c.1023||Father of [[Leofric, Earl of Mercia]]
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|[[Earl Odda|Odda]]||d.1056||Built [[Odda's Chapel]] at [[Deerhurst]] for the soul of his brother Ælfric.<ref>Inscription on the chapel: "Earl Odda had this Royal Hall built and dedicated in honour of the Holy Trinity for the soul of his brother, Aelfric, which left the body in this place. Bishop Ealdred dedicated it the second of the Ides of April in the fourteenth year of the reign of Edward, King of the English."</ref> Buried at [[Pershore]].<ref>''Victoria County History of Worcestershire'', Vol.2, p.128.</ref><br>The area of his jurisdiction probably did not include the Hwicce.<ref>See [[Earl Odda]]</ref>
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