Æthelheard became king of Wessex amid contested succession and faced immediate Mercian pressure from Æthelberht II. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records fighting along the Thames valley borderland. The episode illustrates the Mercian strategy of keeping Wessex weak through support for rival claimants.
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