Aethelred I of Northumbria was killed in April 796, the same year as Offa of Mercia and Ecgfrith of Mercia both died. In 796 alone Northumbria had three kings. Alcuin wrote from the continent in distress about the continuous violence. This chronic regicide made Northumbria the most politically unstable kingdom in England.
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