The Kentish men defeated Offa at Otford in 776, one of the very few military reverses of his long reign. Kent briefly recovered its independence. However Offa later fully subjugated Kent, executed its king Aethelberht II (a different Aethelberht from East Anglia), and thereafter treated it as a Mercian province.
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