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Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum - 3.01
On the accession of Osric and Eanfrith

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3.01 —
Book 3, chapter 1, ed. and tr. Bertram Colgrave • R. A. B. Mynors, Bede’s Ecclesiastical history of the English people (1969). On the accession of Osric, king of Deira, and Eanfrith, king of Bernicia, their deaths at the hands of Cædwalla, and the latter’s death in battle against Eanfrith's brother Oswald (later king of Northumbria)
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The sequence of events presented:
  • During Eadwine’s reign, the sons of Æthelfrith (together with many young nobles) remain in exile among the Irish or the Picts (apud Scottos siue Pictos).
  • Eadwine ... king of Northumbria dies in battle and Northumbria is divided again:
    • Osric, son of Ælfric (uncle of Eadwine) becomes king of Deira;
    • Eanfrith (Eanfrid), son of Æthelfrith, returns from exile and becomes king of Bernicia.

On the accession of Osric and Eanfrith

# On the accession of Osric and Eanfrith Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
The sequence of events presented:
  • During Eadwine’s reign, the sons of Æthelfrith (together with many young nobles) remain in exile among the Irish or the Picts (apud Scottos siue Pictos).
  • Eadwine ... king of Northumbria dies in battle and Northumbria is divided again:
    • Osric, son of Ælfric (uncle of Eadwine) becomes king of Deira;
    • Eanfrith (Eanfrid), son of Æthelfrith, returns from exile and becomes king of Bernicia.
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Eanfrith ... king of Bernicia <strong>Eanfrith ... king of Bernicia</strong> <br>(d. 634) <br>son of Æthelfrith (king of Bernicia) and Acha, was king of Bernicia
Osric ... king of Deira <strong>Osric ... king of Deira</strong> <br>(d. 634) <br>son of Ælfric (an uncle of King Eadwine), was king of Deira.
Irish No associated entry available from the subject index
Picts No associated entry available from the subject index
Eadwine ... king of Northumbria <strong>Eadwine ... king of Northumbria</strong> <br>(d. 632) <br>son of Ælla (king of Deira), was king of the two Northumbrian kingdoms, Deira and Bernicia, and described by Bede as an overking. He was killed in battle against Penda, king of Mercia.
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Æthelfrith<strong>Æthelfrith,Æthelfrith ... king of Bernicia,Æthelfrith ... king of Northumbria</strong> (d. <em>c.</em>616) – succeeded his father Æthelric as king of Bernicia in 592 and became king of Northumbria (both Bernicia and Deira) in 604; married to Bebba and later to the Deiran princess Acha. <small>(link to subject index)</small>.
Places
Deira
Bernicia
Northumbria
Lexical items
Lat. Scotti
Lat. Picti
Lat. Cædwalla


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