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Ruler · 700 – 757

Æthelbald of Mercia

Lived 700 – 757; monarch. King of Mercia of Kingdom of Mercia, 716 – 757.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived
700 – 757
57 years
In office
41 years
one reign
Lines
1
Kingdom of Mercia
Left it
killed in office
Wikidata's manner of death

King of Mercia

Kingdom of Mercia · the 14th of 28 dated reigns · 515 – 924

Æthelbald of Mercia · 716 – 757 · this entry600700800900
killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 716 – 757 · 41 years · came to it aged 16

Left it
killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide

the article also: killed

The subsequent 747 council of Clovesho and a charter Æthelbald issued at Gumley in 749—which freed the church from some of its obligations—may have been responses to Boniface's letter. Æthelbald was killed in 757 by his bodyguards.

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