Æthelred was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Anglo-Saxon King Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in c. 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an unknown illness.

King Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons, England, from 757 until his death. The son of Prince Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, the noble line of Kings. Offa came to the throne after a civil war that led to the assassination of Æthelbald. Offa defeated the other claimant, King Beornred. In the early years of Offa’s rulership, he likely consolidated his control of the Midlands, taking advantage of the instability in Kent’s kingdom to establish himself as overlord.

Cynethryth is associated with her husband in charters and is said to have been a patron of Chertsey Abbey. When elevating Higbert's Bishopric of Lichfield to an Archbishopric, Pope Adrian I wrote to Offa and Cynethryth jointly.

Black Anglo-Saxon King Æthelberht, also called Saint Ethelbert the King (died 20 May 794 at Sutton Walls, Herefordshire), was an 8th-century saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon English kingdom today now includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Very few of the coins he issued have been discovered. The British Museum only shows one coin without his face.

Black English Anglo Saxon King Aethelwulf, also spelled Ethelwulf and Æthelwulf the father of King Alfred the Great. He was the King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825 his father, King Ecgberht. As ruler of the Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with the kingdom of Mercia to empower the invasions by mighty Danish Vikings.

King Alfred, known as Alfred the Great (born 849—died 899, King of Wessex (871–99) in southwest England. He joined his brother King Ethelred I, in confronting a Danish Viking army in Mercia (868). Succeeding his older brother as King, Alfred fought the Danes in Wessex in 871 and again in 878,

Edward the Elder c. 874 – 17 July 924 was King of the English Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. Edward was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife, Ealhswith. When Edward went to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a solid claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I.

Æthelstan or Athelstan Old English: Æðelstān Old Norse: Aðalsteinn; lit. means ‘noble stone’ Athelstan was the son of King Edward the Elder and grandson of Alfred the Great. At birth, he was illegitimate. His mother was Edwina, the King’s mistress, who later became his queen and made Athelstan a legitimate heir to the throne.

Edmund I or Eadmund I, born 920/921 – 26 May 946, was King of the English from 939 until his death on 946. Edmund was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson to King Alfred the Great. When Edward died in 924, his eldest son, Edmund’s half-brother Æthelstan was the successor. King Edmund was crowned after Æthelstan died childless in 939. He had two sons, Edgar and Eadwig, by his first wife Ælfgifu. His sons were children when he was killed in a brawl with an outlaw at Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire, and he was succeeded by his younger brother Eadred, who died in 955 and was followed by Edmund’s sons in succession.

King Sihtric ( Sigtryggr) or Sitric Cáech or Sigtrygg Gále was a Hiberno-Scandinavian Viking leader who ruled Dublin, Ireland and then Viking Northumbria, England in the early 10th century. (d.927), Norse King of York.