BURGRED  ,

king of Mercia, succeeded to the throne in 852, and in 852 or 853 called upon JEthelwulf of Wessex to aid him in subduing the North Welsh . The request was granted and the campaign proved successful, the alliance being sealed by the marriage of Burgred to sEthelswith, daughter of IEthelwulf . In 868 the Mercian king appealed to 'Ethelred and Alfred for assistance against the Danes, who were in possession of Notting-ham . The armies of Wessex and Mercia did no serious fighting, and the Danes were allowed to remain through the winter . In 874 the march of the Danes from Lindsey to Repton drove Burgred from his kingdom . He retired to Rome and died there . See Saxon Chronicle (Earle and Plummer), years 852-853, 868, 874 .