Æthelred I of Northumbria had been restored to the throne after his earlier deposition but was killed by his own nobles at Corbridge in 796, the same year Offa of Mercia died. Alcuin was devastated by the news and wrote that the Northumbrian people were destroying themselves with their murders of kings. The killing created another succession crisis.
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