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Dictionary definition: Æthelbald

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Æthelbald (d. 757), king of Mercia ( 716–57). The young Æthelbald was driven into exile in the reign of his second cousin Ceolred, but succeeded Ceolred as king. Writing in 731 Bede says that all the kingdoms of the English, south of the Humber, are under the authority of ...

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