Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Bede, the Venerable, Saint · composed as a church history in Latin primary

passage 329 of 329 · Book I > book, “quo maligna haeresis Britonum destrueretur” (Faricius, Life (9/9)

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1076 He is said by William of Malmesbury to have been the murderer of Ethelbald. After a year of anarchy Offa succeeded, and retrieved the position of Mercia.

1077 He was killed in an insurrection in 784. (Sax. Chron.)

1078 St. Matt. xi, 12. After Eadbert, Northumbria fell into a state of anarchy, obscure kings contending for the throne.

1079 Cf. supra, sub 750.

1080 An aetheling killed by Moll, king of Northumbria, at a place called Edwin’s Cliff (Sax. Chron.).

1081 Of Northumbria.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England · Bede, the Venerable, Saint · 731–734