In the very same year, Æthelbald of Mercia was killed fighting at Seckington; and Offa drove out his successor, Beornred.
During the interval between the Northumbrian and West Saxon supremacies–the interval embraced by the eighth century, and covered by the greatness of Mercia under Æthelbald and Offa–we have few remains of English literature.
When I get up," William swore grimly, "I will go to mass in Philip's land and bring a rich offering for my churching.
But William had no sooner recovered from his sickness than he found himself face to face with an opponent whose meek and loving temper rose into firmness and grandeur when it fronted the tyranny of the king.
But as the King rode down the steep street of Mantes which he had given to the flames his horse stumbled among the embers, and William was flung heavily against his saddle.
Sidenote: Conquests of the Northmen] With the submission of Northumbria the work which Oswiu and Æthelbald had failed to do was done, and the whole English race was for the first time knit together under a single rule.
Charmouth as in a final victory at Aclea in 851 he led his troops in person against the sea-robbers; and his success won peace for the land through the short and uneventful reigns of his sons Æthelbald and Æthelberht.
At last Æthelbald marched on a state which seemed exhausted by civil discord and ready for submission to his arms.
It was at the head of the forces not of Mercia only but of East-Anglia and Kent, as well as of the West-Saxons, that Æthelbald marched against the Welsh on his western border.
Four of his sons wore the crown in succession; the two eldest, Æthelbald and Æthelberht, ruling only a short time.
See also the act by which Æthelbald confirmed this privilege in 742, H.
We come upon the technical terms of continental law when King Æthelbald forbids any one to beg for a benefit or benefice out of the lands that have been given to the church of Winchester[1047].
Already in 749 Æthelbald of Mercia in a general privilege for the churches (H.
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