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That's Better H-E-L-P. dot com slash History-E-N-G. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England episode 3 the Merion supremacy

we left the situation last time with a brief period of civil war that brought to the

throne of Mercia a young prince called

offer of the line of Pender's brother Ayoa. His predecessor had been able to claim a degree of dominance

over the kingdom south of the Humber, but all that was now gone.

All mercy and the Saxons anyway.

And in Kent, Ethelbert II had re-established the line of Aisuch, son of Hengest, independent of Mercian

Control.

Wessex was an interesting case. Between the two kingdoms to the west, in in modern day Somerset and Gloucestershire

was an area the control of which flip-flopped between the two. And under Athlebold,

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