Æthelbald was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757. Æthelbald was the son of Alweo and thus a grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to the throne after the death of his cousin, King Ceolred, who had driven him into exile.
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Guthlac appears to Æthelbald in a dream in this roundel from the Guthlac Roll (early 13th century).
The Ismere Diploma, a charter of King Æthelbald's to Ealdorman Cyneberht in 736.
A 19th-century engraving of the crypt at St Wystan's Church, Repton where Æthelbald was interred
The mounted figure on the Repton Stone in Derby Museum has been identified as Æthelbald.
Alfred the Third, King of Mercia, visiting William d'Albanac, engraving after Benjamin West's painting (1782)Historical Figures born in the 700s 6
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Æthelbald was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757. Æthelbald was the son of Alweo and thus a grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to the throne after the death of his cousin, King Ceolred, who had driven him into exile. During his long reign, Mercia became the dominant kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons, and recovered the position of pre-eminence it had enjoyed during the strong reigns of Mercian kings Penda and Wulfhere between about 628 and 675.
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