Aethelbald was murdered at Seckington by his own bodyguard in what may have been an assassination related to court politics. Boniface letter condemning his licentiousness may have contributed to a moral crisis. A brief civil war followed before Offa prevailed to become one of the most powerful English kings in the pre-Viking era.
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