from him. A synod was assembled at Pincanhalh, with Archbishop Eanbald presiding.
In the 799^th year Brorda, prince of the Mercians, who was also called Hildegils, died. A certain abbot, Mora by name, was done away with by his overseer, Tilthegn, by a mournful death. Also the ealdorman Moll is slain by order of King Eardwulf. The ealdorman Ealdred, killer of King Æthelred, is slain by the ealdorman Thormund in revenge for his lord. Osbald, formerly an ealdorman and a courtier, and at one time king, though presently abbot, died, and was buried in the church at York.
In the 800^th year Headred, bishop of the church of Hexham, died; Eanberht succeeded him. Alhmund, son of King Alhred—who had been before Æthelred—seized by King Eardwulf’s bodyguards,¹ is killed at his command. A most powerful gale destroyed very many cities and settlements, and tore out trees by the roots, on 24 December. The sea goes beyond its bounds; also a great pestilence carries off herds of cattle. King Charles, relying on imperial majesty, sentenced to death the Romans who had disparaged Pope Leo; but at the prayers of the same pope, he commuted the death sentence and thrust them into exile.
In the 801^st year Eadwine, who was also Eata, formerly an ealdorman of the Nothumbrians, then thereafter an abbot, died happily on 15 January, and was buried in his church at Geinford. Eardwulf, king of the Northumbrians, and Cenwulf of the Mercians, came together to do battle, but, on the advice of bishops and princes, they established peace between themselves on oath, to be kept as long as they would live.
In the 802^nd year Brihtric, king of the West [Saxons], was undone by poison prepared and offered to another person which Queen Eadburh, daughter of King Offa—ever the accuser of good men—presented to him. She, crossing over by sea with innumerable treasures, offered gifts to King Charles. The king said to her: ‘a choice is granted to you, to pick who you wish, either me or a son’. But she, since she was given to sexual pleasure, picked the son because he was younger; and so she lost both of them. The king, however, gave her a monastery, in which, by donning the habit of nuns, she lurked under the guise of hypocrisy; and she died wretchedly in Pavia, after being ravished by a certain base-born man of her own people and found out, and thrown out of the monastery at the king’s command, thereafter begging through villages and castles. Ecgberht, however, descending from royal stock, succeeded Brihtric.
In the 803^rd year
In the 804^th year Selbach, king of Scots, died; Eochaid the poisonous succeeded him.
In the 805^th year Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury, departed; Wulfred succeeded him.
In the 806^th year Eardwulf, king of the Northumbrians, was put to flight by his own people, and thereafter they lacked a king for a while.
In the 807^th year Cuthred, king of Kent, who had succeeded Ecgfrith, died; Baldred succeeded him.
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In the 812^th year
In the 813^th year Charles the Great, king of the Franks, departed; Louis his son succeeded him.
In the 814^th year Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons, raided in the kingdoms of others from east to west: there was no-one who could withstand him.
In the 815^th year the holy Leo passed away from this life; Stephen succeeded him.
In the 816^th year
In the 817^th year Ealhstan received the bishopric of the church of Sherborne which he ruled for 50 years.
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In the 821^st year Cenwulf, king of the Mercians, died; Ceolwulf succeeded him.
In the 822^nd year