Ine's successor was King Æthelheard ; it is not known whether Æthelheard was related to Ine, though some later sources state that Æthelheard was Ine's brother-in-law.

The earliest reference to the town is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which records that in 733 the King of Wessex, Æthelheard lost control of Somerton to Ethelbald, King of Mercia.

Æthelheard ( meaning roughly ' Noble Stern '), also spelled Ethelheard or Æþelheard, was King of Wessex from 726 to 740.

There is an unreliable record of Æthelheard having been the brother-in-law of his predecessor, Ine, but his ancestry is unknown, perhaps making him the first King of Wessex not to be descended from Cynric by blood.

Oshere, King of Hwicce, possibly jointly with his presumed brother Osric, and ( perhaps after Osric ) with Æthelmod, Æthelheard, Æthelweard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric.

Æðelweard, King of Hwicce, apparently jointly with his presumed brothers Æthelheard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric.

In 692, together with Æthelheard, issued a charter to Abbess Cuthswith, and also witnessed a charter of Æthelred, King of Mercia, together with Æthelheard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric.

In 692 he witnessed a charter of Æthelred, King of Mercia S 75, together with Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelberht, and in 693 the four brothers witnessed a charter issued by their father Oshere S 53

* Æthelheard of the Hwicce, monarch of the Hwicce

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Æthelric was a king of the Hwicce and son of Oshere ; it is possible that he reigned jointly with Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelberht.

In the wake of his departure, the West Saxon throne was disputed between Æthelheard and a rival claimant, Oswald.

Oshere was succeeded by his sons Æthelheard, Æthelweard and Æthelric.

He was still reigning in 693, when he issued a charter to Abbess Cuthswith, witnessed by his sons Æthelheard, Æthelweard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric.

It is probable that they were all sons of Oshere, although the paternity of Æthelheard and Æthelberht is not explicitly stated in surviving documents.

He is succeeded by Æthelheard.

Eadberht became king of Kent, and Æthelheard, the archbishop of Canterbury at that time, fled his see ; it is likely that Christ Church, Canterbury was sacked.

And concerning that letter which the most reverend and holy Æthelheard sent to us ... as regards that apostate cleric who mounted to the throne ... we excommunicate and reject him, having regard to the safety of his soul.

Coenwulf's desire to move the southern archbishopric to London would have been influenced by the situation in Kent, where Archbishop Æthelheard had been forced to flee by Eadberht Præn.

Æthelheard, who had succeeded Jaenberht in 792, had been the abbot of a monastery at Louth in Lindsey.

On 18 January 802 Æthelheard received a papal privilege that re-established his authority over all the churches in the archdiocese of Lichfield as well as those of Canterbury.

Æthelheard held a council at Clovesho on 12 October 803 which finally stripped Lichfield of its archiepiscopal status.

Archbishop Æthelheard died in 805 and was succeeded by Wulfred.

He was succeeded by Æthelheard.

Æthelheard's succession to the throne was disputed by an ætheling, Oswald, and it may be that Mercian support for Æthelheard in the unsettled aftermath of Ine's abdication both helped establish Æthelheard as king and also brought him into the sphere of influence of Æthelbald, the king of Mercia.

Oswald may have had the better claim, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls him a descendant of the early king Ceawlin, but it was Æthelheard who prevailed.

Æthelheard was succeeded by Cuthred, possibly a brother or other relative.

Æthelheard, son of Oshere, maintained that Æthelred had no right to give Fladbury away, as it had been the property of Osthryth.

Æthelheard claimed it as her kinsman and heir.

He succeeded Æthelheard, his relative and possibly his brother.

It has been speculated that Æthelburh was the abbess who was a kinswoman of King Ealdred of the Hwicce, but there are other prominent women named Æthelburh during that period.

Together with the rest of English Mercia it submitted to King Alfred about 877 – 883 under Earl Æthelred, who possibly himself belonged to the Hwicce.

* King Æthelberht of Hwicce ( late 7th century )

Osric was probably a son of Eanhere, a previous King of the Hwicce, by

She also referred to the King list of Hwicce in this respect and its similarity.

* Uhtred of Hwicce ( 8th century ), King of Hwicce

Æthelmod was possibly a King of Hwicce, perhaps a son of Osric, reigning jointly with his uncle Oshere.

Eanberht, King of Hwicce, jointly with Uhtred and Ealdred.

Uhtred was the King of Hwicce, jointly with Eanberht and Ealdred.

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The first record of the term " Cumberland " appears in 945, when the Anglo Saxon Chronicle recorded that the area was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland by King Edmund of England.

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