[123] “Ceolmund the duke,” “Ceolmund the minister,” often appears in the Mercian documents of the time.
[124] Simeon of Durham, under the year 779, has the entry, Duke Aldred, the slayer of King Ethelred, was slain by Duke Thorhtmund in revenge for his lord.
[125] This amounts to an official representation of the three great powers, the West Saxons, the Mercians, and the Northumbrians.
[126] Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 486.
[127] An Irishman.
[128] From 784 to 819.
[129] Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 487.
[130] We know nothing certain of this person.
[131] We cannot trace his pedigree.
[132] Simeon of Durham says that he committed suicide.