What is Ceolwulf I of Mercia?
{{Infobox Monarch | name =Ceolwulf I | image =Ceolwulf.AS.alphabet.jpg | caption = | title =King of Mercia | reign =821-823 | predecessor = | successor = | queen = | issue = | father = | birth_date = | death_date =c. 823 | burial = }} '''Ceolwulf I''' was the [[List of monarchs of Mercia|King of Mercia]], [[East Anglia]] and [[Kent]] from 821 to 823. He succeeded his brother [[Coenwulf of Mercia]]. There was a great deal of [[:wikt:disagreement|disagreement]] among his [[noblemen]] during his short [[reign]]. He was [[:wikt:deposed|deposed]] and [[exile]]d from [[Mercia]] by [[Beornwulf of Mercia]] who claimed the throne himself. == King of Mercia== He was the son Cuthbert, a Mercian nobleman. His brother Coenwulf ruled Mercia before him.<ref name=Ashley260>Mike Ashley, ''The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens'' (New york: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 260</ref> At his brother's death the Mercians were attacking Wales. Ceolwulf continued where Coenwulf left off. The ''[[Annales Cambriae]]'' for the year 822 said the 'Saxons' attacked and destroyed the [[fortress]] at Deganwy and then controlled [[Powys]].<ref name=Stenton230>Frank Stenton, ''Anglo-Saxon England'' (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 230</ref> [[Wales|Welsh]] poems of the time confirm Mercia was attacking Powys.<ref name=Stenton230/> On 17 September 822 he was [[Consecration|consecrated]] king by Archbishop [[Wulfred]].{{efn|This is one of the earliest examples of an English king being consecrated.<ref name=Williams77/>}}<ref name=Williams77>Ann Williams; Alfred P. Smyth; D. P. Kirby, ''A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales, c. 500–c. 1050'' (London: B A Seaby Ltd, 1991), p. 77</ref> In [[:en:wikt:charters|charters]] issued by Ceolwulf he styled himself {{lang-la|rex Merciorum vel etiam Contwariorum.}}{{efn| meaning King of Mercia and Kent.}}<ref name=EHR450>F. M. Stenton, 'The Supremacy of the Mercian Kings