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Æthelbald was buried at Repton, in a crypt which still can be seen ; a contemporary is reported to have seen a vision of him in hell, reinforcing the impression of a king not universally well-regarded.
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On their return from Rome in 856, Æthelwulf was deposed by his son Æthelbald.
When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.
When Æthelwulf's son Æthelbald ascended to the throne, the kingdom was divided to avoid bloodshed.
A series of maps that illustrate the increasing hegemony of Mercia during the 8th centuryThe next important king of Mercia was Æthelbald ( 716 – 757 ).
But when Wihtred died in 725, and Ine abdicated his throne the following year to become a monk in Rome, Æthelbald was free to establish Mercia's hegemony over the rest of the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber.
Æthelbald suffered a setback in 752, when he was defeated by the West Saxons under Cuthred, but he seems to have restored his supremacy over Wessex by 757.
After the murder of Æthelbald by one of his bodyguards in 757, a civil war broke out which was concluded with the victory of Offa.
In the first half of the eighth century, the dominant Anglo-Saxon ruler was King Æthelbald of Mercia, who by 731 had become the overlord of all the provinces south of the river Humber.
Æthelbald was one of a number of strong Mercian kings who ruled from the mid-seventh century to the early ninth, and it was not until the reign of Egbert of Wessex in the ninth century that Mercian power began to wane.
Æthelbald, who ruled Mercia for most of the forty years before Offa, was also descended from Eowa according to the genealogies: Offa's grandfather, Eanwulf, was Æthelbald's second cousin.
Æthelbald, who had ruled Mercia since 716, was assassinated in 757.
Æthelbald was initially succeeded by Beornred, about whom little is known.
Here, Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald fought against the heathen, and according to the chronicle it was " the greatest slaughter of heathen host ever made.
While Æthelwulf was able to muster enough support to fight a civil war or to banish Æthelbald and his fellow conspirators, he instead chose to yield western Wessex to his son, while he himself retained central and eastern Wessex.
King Æthelbald of Wessex or Ethelbald (; means roughly ' Noble Bold ') was King of Wessex from 858 to 860.
It is probable that Æthelbald was involved in such a plot due to hearing about his father's marriage to Judith.
Little is known of his reign and only one charter survives, witnessed by king Æthelbald, king Æthelbert and Judith, suggesting that he was on good terms with his brother.
Asser, who was hostile to Æthelbald both because of his revolt against his father and because of his uncanonical marriage, described him as " iniquitous and grasping ", and his reign " two and a half lawless years ".
His brother Æthelbald was left in charge of the West Saxons.
He was buried at Sherborne Abbey in Dorset beside his brother Æthelbald.
Æthelbald ( also spelled Ethelbald, or Aethelbald ) ( died 757 ) was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands, from 716 until 757.
Æthelbald was killed in 757 by his bodyguards.
Æthelbald came of the Mercian royal line, although his father, Alweo, was never king.
Æthelbald and buried
* King Æthelbald of Mercia was buried here in 757 AD.
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Æthelbald died at Sherborne in Dorset on 20 December 860, aged around 26 or 27.
Both Wessex and Kent were ruled by strong kings at that time, but within fifteen years the contemporary chronicler Bede describes Æthelbald as ruling all England south of the river Humber.
The subsequent 747 council of Clovesho, and a charter Æthelbald issued at Gumley in 749 — which freed the church from some of its obligations — may have been responses to Boniface's letter.
When Ceolred died of a fit at a banquet, Æthelbald returned to Mercia and became ruler.
In 752, Æthelbald and Cuthred are again on opposite sides of the conflict, and according to one version of the manuscript, Cuthred " put him to flight " at Burford.
Æthelbald seems to have reasserted his authority over the West Saxons by the time of his death, since a later West Saxon king, Cynewulf, is recorded as witnessing a charter of Æthelbald at the very beginning of his reign, in 757.
A council was, in fact, subsequently held at Clovesho ( the location of which is now lost ); Æthelbald attended and perhaps presided.
A 19th-century engraving of the crypt at Repton where Æthelbald was interred.
Two years after this, in 749, at the synod of Gumley, Æthelbald issued a charter that freed ecclesiastical lands from all obligations except the requirement to build forts and bridges — obligations which lay upon everyone, as part of the trinoda necessitas.
In 757, Æthelbald was killed at Seckington, Warwickshire, near the royal seat of Tamworth.
The monastery church on the site at that time was probably constructed by Æthelbald to house the royal mausoleum ; other burials there include that of Wigstan, but nearly all of the Royal coffins in Repton were probably vandalised and destroyed by the Vikings ..
Image: Repton crypt. jpg | 1-A 19th-century engraving of the crypt at Repton where Æthelbald was interred
This year Cuthred, king of the West Saxons, in the 12th year of his reign, fought at Burford, against Æthelbald king of the Mercians, and put him to flight.
In 752, Cuthred led a successful rebellion against Æthelbald at Battle Edge in Burford and secured independence from Mercia for the rest of his reign.
The first church of Hoo St Werburgh may have been built in the reign of the 8th century King Æthelbald of Mercia, though presumably a monastery existed nearby at an earlier time.
After returning from exile, Æthelbald of Mercia succeeded Coelred and afterwards endowed the church at Crowland.
The Life of Guthlac, which includes information about Æthelbald during his period of exile at Crowland, is dedicated to Ælfwald.
Æthelbald was driven to take refuge deep in the Fens at Crowland, where Guthlac, another descendant of the Mercian royal house, was living as a hermit.
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