Right-Believing
Merewalh
A pious Anglo-Saxon ruler honored as a saint; few details of his life survive.
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- Era
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Life
Merewalh was a sub-king of the Magonsæte, a smaller kingdom in western Mercia, thought to have lain in Herefordshire and Shropshire. He lived in the second half of the seventh century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle implies that Penda was his father, but his name suggests a British origin. He ruled the lands around Leominster; according to one source he died in 675.
The record calls him a pious ruler honored as a saint. The sources consulted say nothing of his liturgical veneration or any canonization.