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This year Offa, King of Mercia, commanded that King Ethelbert should be beheaded; and Osred, who had been king of the Northumbrians, returning home after his exile, was apprehended and slain, on the eighteenth day before the calends of October. His body is deposited at Tinemouth. Ethelred this year , on the third day before the calends of October, took unto himself a new wife, whose name was Elfleda.

(Ingram, p.55)