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Æthelwulf meets with an acute crisis as …
Years: 856 - 856
Æthelwulf meets with an acute crisis as soon after his marriage to Judith and the couple’s return to Wessex.
His eldest son Æthelbald (Athelstan had since died) had devised a conspiracy with the Ealdorman of Somerset and the Bishop of Sherborne to oppose Æthelwulf's resumption of the kingship once he returned.
There is enough support of Æthelwulf to either have a civil war, or to banish Æthelbald and his fellow conspirators.
Instead Æthelwulf yields Wessex proper to his son, and accepts Surrey, Sussex and Essex for himself.
Æthelbald is crowned at Kingston on Thames.
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Years: 856 - 856
Locations
People
Groups
- Franks
- Saxons
- Anglo-Saxons
- Kent, Kingdom of
- Wessex, English Kingdom of
- Britain, Medieval
- Cornwall, Brythonic kingdom of
- Francia Occidentalis (West Francia, or France), Kingdom of
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions