After Aethelbald murder, Beornred seized power but was quickly overthrown by Offa. The exact military confrontation between them is poorly documented, but Offa victory ended the civil war and began the most dominant reign in English history before Alfred. Offa would go on to style himself king of all the English.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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