Aethelbald of Mercia, at the height of Mercian supremacy, exploited Northumbrian internal conflict to raid across the Humber. Bede criticised Aethelbald's moral failings, and the raids into Northumbria exemplify the predatory inter-kingdom warfare of the period. Mercia under Aethelbald and later Offa dominated most of England south of the Humber.
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