Ælfwald I of Northumbria was treacherously killed at Chesters on Hadrian's Wall by the ealdorman Sicga in 788. Ælfwald was regarded as a just ruler and his death was mourned. A heavenly light was reported over the site of his murder at Hadrian's Wall. Alcuin lamented another Northumbrian royal killing from his Carolingian vantage point.
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