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Today we begin with Northumbria.

King Aethelred of Northumbria, son of Aethelwald Mall, was sitting the throne, having taken

it from a man who claimed to be from the line of Ida.

And initially, it seems that many people were quite happy with Aethelred and were told

that he was put in power with a great deal of pomp and circumstance.

Then shortly after he took the throne, someone tried to kill Aildermann Aidwolf.

The assassination failed, but it certainly was a strange event and it had everyone looking

over their shoulders for a bit.

Three years later, two largely unknown Northumbria nobles, Herodbert and Aethelwald, killed

three other nobles, Aildwolf, not to be confused with Aidwolf who escaped, Conis Cliffa

and Ekkah.

Those are the primary facts.

We don't know much about the assassins, Herodbert and Aethelwald, so we don't know if they

had motives of their own.

Further, no contemporary records indicate why the Aildermann were killed or who, if anyone,

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