Whose father was an Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 852 to 874?
Beorhtweald Ealdorman of Kent Beorhtweald Ealdorman of Kent was an English ruler of the 9th Century AD. His father was Burgred of Mercia, his mother: Æthelswith, and his brother,: Beorhtnoð æthling of Kent.
Bede Bede ( ; Old English: "Bǣda" or "Bēda" ; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: "Bēda Venerābilis" ), was an English monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" gained him the title "The Father of English History".