Upon the death of the latter, which happened in 686, Widred, his brother, obtained possession of the crown.

But as the succession had been of late so much disjointed by revolutions and usurpations, faction began to prevail among the nobility, which invited Ceodwalla, King of Wessex, with his brother, Mollo, to attack the kingdom.

These invaders committed great devastations in Kent; but the death of Mollo, who was slain in a skirmish [h], gave a short breathing-time to that kingdom.

Widred restored the affairs of Kent, and, after a reign of thirty-two years [i], left the crown to his posterity.

Eadbert, Ethelbert, and Alric, his descendants, successively mounted the throne.