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Æthelbald would retain the western shires ( i. e., traditional Wessex ), and Æthelwulf would rule in the east.
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Æthelbald and would
Generally, a king subject to an overlord such as Æthelbald would still be regarded as a king, but would have his independence curtailed in some respects.
If this is Æthelbald, it would make it the earliest large-scale pictorial representation of an English monarch.
Guthlac predicted that Æthelbald would become king, and Æthelbald promised to build him an abbey if his prophecy became true.
Subsequently Guthlac appeared in a miraculous vision to Æthelbald, prophesying he would be future King of Mercia.
Æthelbald and western
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.
To avoid a civil war, Æthelwulf allowed Æthelbald to continue to rule Wessex itself ( or the western part of Wessex ) while he took Kent and the other eastern parts of the kingdom.
However father and son negotiated a compromise under which Æthelwulf received the eastern districts of the kingdom and Æthelbald the western.
Æthelbald and .
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.
During the short reigns of the older two of his three elder brothers, Æthelbald of Wessex and Æthelberht of Wessex, Alfred is not mentioned.
When Æthelwulf's son Æthelbald ascended to the throne, the kingdom was divided to avoid bloodshed.
* Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Bretwalda, abdicates in favor of his son Æthelbald.
* Æthelbald returns from exile to succeed Ceolred as king of Mercia.
* King Æthelbald becomes King of Mercia.
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.
The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æthelbald after defeating the other claimant Beornred.
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 granted land to Eanwulf in the territory of the Hwicce, and it is possible that Offa and Æthelbald were from the same branch of the family.
In one charter Offa refers to Æthelbald as his kinsman, and Headbert, Æthelbald's brother, continued to witness charters after Offa rise to power.
Æthelbald, who had ruled Mercia since 716, was assassinated in 757.
Æthelbald was initially succeeded by Beornred, about whom little is known.
Little is known about the history of the East Saxons during the eighth century, but what evidence there is indicates that both London and Middlesex, which had been part of the kingdom of Essex, were finally brought under Mercian control during the reign of Æthelbald.
Both Æthelbald and Offa granted land in Middlesex and London as they wished ; in 767 a charter of Offa's disposed of land in Harrow without a local ruler as witness.
The overlordship of the southern English which had been exerted by Æthelbald appears to have collapsed during the civil strife over the succession, and it is not until 764, when evidence emerges of Offa's influence in Kent, that Mercian power can be seen expanding again.
To the south of Mercia, Cynewulf came to the throne of Wessex in 757 and recovered much of the border territory that Æthelbald had conquered from the West Saxons.
Æthelbald and Wessex
King Æthelbald of Wessex or Ethelbald (; means roughly ' Noble Bold ') was King of Wessex from 858 to 860.
After Æthelwulf's death, Æthelbald became the king of Wessex, while Æthelbert again became king of Kent.
da: Æthelbald af Wessex
de: Æthelbald ( Wessex )
fr: Æthelbald de Wessex
id: Æthelbald dari Wessex
simple: Æthelbald of Wessex
This is evidenced by the unbroken series of 9th century kings of Wessex named Æthelwulf, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, and Æthelred.
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.
In 733 Æthelbald undertook an expedition against Wessex and captured the royal manor of Somerton.
The chronicler was almost certainly a West Saxon, and since neither Æthelbald nor Offa were kings of Wessex it is possible the chronicler does not mention them out of regional pride.
The North Choir Aisle contains two tombs, believed to be the tombs of King Æthelbald of Wessex and his brother King Ethelbert of Wessex, elder brothers to Alfred the Great.
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