750. Cuthred of Wessex fights Æthelbald of Mercia and Ealdorman Æthelhun
The eighth-century annals appended to Bede note a battle between Cuthred of Wessex and Æthelbald of Mercia in 750. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports a fight between Cuthred and Æthelbald under 752 (which may be a misdated version of the battle of 750 or may be another battle), and notes under 750 that Cuthred fought against the arrogant Ealdorman Æthelhun.
Nothing more is known of Æthelhun: he does not appear in the few surviving West Saxon or Mercian charters from the mid-eighth century. There is no way of telling whether he was allied with the Mercians (or was himself a Mercian ealdorman, in which case the post-Bedan annals and the Chronicle presumably refer to the same battle), or whether he was staging an internal uprising among the West Saxons (perhaps seizing the moment when Cuthred was distracted by his campaign against Mercia).