while wilfrid was at aldegisel's court, the frankish mayor of the palace, ebroin, offered a bushel of gold coins in return for wilfrid, alive or dead. aldegisel himself is said to have torn up and burned the letter from the frankish mayor in front of the ambassadors and his household. it has been surmised by some that aldegisel's kindness to wilfrid was a mode of defiance of frankish domination. his successor and possibly son was radbod, who followed the older pagan ways and was an enemy of charles martel.