Ethelbald
Family: Mercians · Role: king · First appears: Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2
Life events
- c. 735 · Ethelbald wrongfully wasted part of Northumbria while Eadbert was campaigning against the Picts.(Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2 · 📍 Northumbria)
- With: Eadbert
- “Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, cruelly and wrongfully wasted part of Northumbria, their king, Eadbert, with his army, being employed against the Picts.”
- c. 735 · Cuthred rose up against Ethelbald and Oengus.(Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2)
- c. 735 · Ethelbald was treacherously murdered by his own guards.(Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2)
- “Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, was treacherously and miserably murdered, in the night, by his own guards”
Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2
- enemies with Eadbert “Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, cruelly and wrongfully wasted part of Northumbria, their king, Eadbert, with his army, being employed against the Picts.”
- enemies with Cuthred “Cuthred, king of the West Saxons, rose up against king Ethelbald and Oengus;”
Also listed in Mercians — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.