As you might remember, Queen Osthryth has recently been murdered by the Mercian nobility and was buried at Bardney. And the murder might have happened because she was working to detach the Hwicce off from Mercian domination. And while we talked a little about that, I got a few questions about it so I thought we might talk a little more about how Mercia was organized so that you understand why that was such a big deal. Because this wasn’t just land greed… there was a plan here, and losing that...
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