She was also alleged to have assassinated those men whom she couldn't compel Beorhtric to kill through poisoning their food or drink.
The young man may have been called Worr, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the death of both men shortly before the succession of Egbert, the grandfather of Alfred the Great, as king of Wessex.
Soon though she was caught in a sexual affair with another Saxon man and, after being duly convicted, was expelled on the direct orders of Charlemagne, penniless, into the streets.
Two possibly authentic charters of 801 show Eadburh as regina (queen), a title which was rarely used for king's wives in Wessex in the ninth century.
This changed again when Charles the Bald insisted that his daughter Judith, who married King Æthelwulf, be properly crowned queen.