While visiting the royal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia" id="mwKg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mercia">Mercian</a> court at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Walls_Hill_Fort" id="mwKw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sutton Walls Hill Fort">Sutton Walls</a> with a view to marrying princess <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ælfthryth_of_Crowland" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ælfthryth of Crowland">Ælfthryth</a>, King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelberht_II_of_East_Anglia" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Æthelberht II of East Anglia">Æthelberht II of East Anglia</a> is taken captive and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Decapitation">beheaded</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_20#cite_note-2" id="mwLw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMA">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFTavinor2016">Tavinor, Michael (2016). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SJLBCwAAQBAJ" id="mwBuQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBuU">Shrines of the Saints in England and Wales</i></a>. Norwich, UK: Canterbury Press. p.<span id="mwBuY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>156. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBuc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBug" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781848258426" id="mwBuk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781848258426"><bdi id="mwBuo">9781848258426</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwBus" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Shrines+of+the+Saints+in+England+and+Wales&amp;rft.place=Norwich%2C+UK&amp;rft.pages=156&amp;rft.pub=Canterbury+Press&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=9781848258426&amp;rft.aulast=Tavinor&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSJLBCwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+20"></span></span>