Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Attila

Family: Huns · Role: king · First appears: Book I · Chap. XIII

Life events

  • 423 · Aetius was engaged in serious wars against Bledla and Attila.(Book I · Chap. XIII)
    • With: Aetius Bledla
    • “as he was then engaged in most serious wars with Bledla and Attila, kings of the Huns.”
  • 423 · Attila murdered his brother Bledla through treachery.(Book I · Chap. XIII)
    • With: Bledla
    • “Bledla had been murdered by the treachery of his own brother Attila”
  • 423 · Attila ravaged much of Europe, destroying cities and castles.(Book I · Chap. XIII · 📍 Europe)
    • “Attila himself remained so intolerable an enemy to the Republic, that he ravaged almost all Europe, attacking and destroying cities and castles.”

Book I · Chap. XIII

  • enemies with Aetius (Aetius was at war with Attila.) “Yet, for all this, they could not obtain any help from him, as he was then engaged in most serious wars with Bledla and Attila, kings of the Huns.”
  • siblings with Bledla “And though the year before this Bledla had been murdered by the treachery of his own brother Attila, yet Attila himself remained so intolerable an enemy to the Republic, that he ravaged almost all Europe, attacking and destroying cities and castles.”

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