721-5. Internal divisions in Wessex
(Æthelburh demolishes Taunton; Ine fights the South Saxons)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records five events in 721-5 that suggest a power-struggle in Wessex. In 721, Ine killed the ætheling Cynewulf. In 722, Queen Æthelburh demolished Taunton, which Ine had built, and the ætheling Ealdberht whom Ine had banished went away to Surrey and Sussex. That same year, Ine fought against the South Saxons, presumably because they were harbouring Ealdberht, and in 725 Ine fought the South Saxons again and killed Ealdberht.