Charlemagne and his Critics 814-829

Abstract

Not long after the death of the Mercian king Offa on 26 th July 796, Alcuin criticised him in a letter to one of his former courtiers for the bloodshed that had been involved in his efforts to secure the succession of his son Egfrith. The consequences of this violence Alcuin thought he saw manifest in the brevity of the latter’s reign and his death, although personally innocent of involvement in his father’s crimes, only one hundred days after that of Offa. With the kingdom then passing to C...

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