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Æthelbald was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757. Æthelbald was the son of Alweo and thus a grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to the throne after the death of his cousin, King Ceolred, who had driven him into exile. During his long reign, Mercia became the dominant kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons, and recovered the position of pre-eminence it had enjoyed during the strong reigns of Mercian kings Penda and Wulfhere between about 628 and 675.
Berhtwald was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Documentary evidence names Berhtwald as abbot at Reculver before his election as archbishop. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they had not succeeded each other until Berhtwald's reign.
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Æthelwulf was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.
Cynered, was a Bishop of Selsey.
Guthheard was a medieval Bishop of Selsey.
Wighelm is a probable Bishop of Selsey.
Beornheah was a Bishop of Selsey.
Wulfhun was a Bishop of Selsey.
Ælfred or Alfred was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. Ælfred attests charters from 943 to 953. In 945 he received a grant of land from Edmund I. Ælfred died between 953 and 956.
Eadhelm was a medieval Bishop of Selsey.
Ælfmær was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.
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