 Kirby suggests that Stephen's "Life of Wilfrid" was extremely partisan, as its purpose was to magnify Wilfrid as well as vindicate him.Also that Queen Eafe was the daughter of Wulfhere the Christian king of Mercia, and that Æðelwealh "and" his nobles would have been baptised at the Mercian court, and on their return to Sussex, Wulfhere will have sent a number of priests with them, to baptise the ordinary people.He further speculates that Christianity may have secured a foothold in early Sussex via one of its sons, the "South Saxon" Damian, bishop of Rochester , but the evidence is not certain.