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	Northumbria - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		NORTHUMBRIA (regnum Northanhymbrorum), one of the most important of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, extended from the Humber to the Forth.
		He was succeeded in 705 by his son Osred, and under him and his successors Northumbria began rapidly to decline through the vices of its kings and the extravagance of their donations.
		It was during his reign in 827 that Northumbria acknowledged the supremacy of Ecgberht, king of Wessex.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Northumbria (2243 words)

	northumbria
		It was not until the reign of William the Conqueror that Northumbria became an integral part of England.
		Edwin (in Latin, Aeduinus) (585?-633), Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria (616-33), a territory in northern England and southern Scotland.
		After his death the kingdom of Northumbria fell apart, and Christianity was for a time extinguished in northern England.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/northumbria.htm (432 words)

	northumbria
		Related phrases: oswald of northumbria northumbria university oswuiu of northumbria kingdom of northumbria ecgfrith of northumbria aelle ii of northumbria king of northumbria aldfrith of northumbria oswio of northumbria regno di northumbria
		Northumbria was een van de belangrijkere Angelsaksische koninkrijken in het Engeland van voor Willem de Veroveraar.
		Northumbria is primarily the name of an Anglian or Anglo-Saxon kingdom which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the kingdom.
	www.vocamania.com /northumbria.aspx (378 words)

	NORTHUMBRIA (regnum No... - Online Information article about NORTHUMBRIA (regnum No...
		Northumbria under his sway and acquired a supremacy analogous to that previously held by Edwin.
		Constantine II., king of the Scots, for help, but the Scottish and Northumbrian armies were defeated at Corbridge.
		Malcolm II., king of the Scots, in 1oo6.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NORTHUMBRIA_regnum_Northanhymbr.html (2520 words)

	Aelle II of Northumbria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rallying, however, the Danes defeated the Northumbrians, and in the encounter both Ælle and Osberht were slain.
		In the Norse sagas Ælle is represented as having brought about the Danish invasion of Northumbria by cruel and unjust actions.
		Ragnar's sons tried to avenge their father, and invaded Northumbria, but were beaten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aelle_II_of_Northumbria (403 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Prince Edwin, son of the late King Aelle of Deira (and possibly nephew of King Aethelric) flees to the Court of King Iago of Gwynedd.
		Unrest in Northumbria tempts the exiled King Osred II back to his kingdom from the Isle of Man. His supporters dessert him and he is killed by King Aethelred's men at Aynburg.
		High-Reeve Osulf of Bamburgh is appointed Ealdorman of Northumbria.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Anglo-Saxon (18101 words)

	Ivarr the Boneless, disabled Viking War Chief
		On 21 March 867, - The rival monarchs of Northumbria, Aelle II and Osbeorht, put asiðe their ðifferences anð join forces to expel the Vikings from the city, but are thoroughly defeated at the Battle of York by Princes Ivarr the Boneless and Halfdan Wide-Embrace of Sjaelland & Uppsala (Scandinavia).
		Osbeorht is killed, while Aelle II is captured and 'Spread-Eagled', for complicity in the murder of the invaders' father, King Ragnarr Lothbrok.
		Northumbria, once one of the greatest kingðoms of Englanð, was now a Viking Kingðom thus forever enðing northern Englanð's ðominance in British affairs.
	uk.geocities.com /jinghiz53/Ivarr_the_Boneless.html (3572 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 801 AD-898 AD
		Osbeorht is killed, while Aelle II is supposedly captured and 'Spread-Eagled', for complicity in the murder of the invaders' father, King Ragnarr Lothbrok.
		With the removal of the puppet King Ricsige of Northumbria, Prince Halfdan Wide-Embrace of Sjaelland and Uppsala (Scandinavia) formally establishes the Norse Kingdom of York with himself as its first monarch.
		King Ceolwulf II of Mercia clashes with the Welsh and kills King Rhodri Mawr of Gwynedd, Powys and Seisyllwg in battle.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime3.html (2653 words)

	The Heptarchy: Anglo-Saxon Ascendancy
		After the death of Aelle, in 514, not much is known of Sussex until the mid-7th century.
		Northumbria was the result of the fusing of two other kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
		Edwin of Deira, the son of Aelle, ruled both kingdoms from 616 to 632 and was bretwalda during this time.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/61860 (438 words)

	AllRefer.com - Northumbria, kingdom of (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Northumbria, kingdom of[nOrthum´brE´u] Pronunciation Key, one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England.
		They occupied S Northumbria, and the Angles were able to keep only a small kingdom stretching from the Tees N to the Firth of Forth.
		Harold II of England, however, soon came north to defeat the Danes.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nrthmbkng.html (436 words)

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		At its height, the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria was vast, encompassing all the land between the River Humber and the Firth of Forth, although the western side of Northumbria had a coast on the Irish Sea only between the Ribble and the Lune.
		Northumbria retained the power it had gained under the Danes - the earl Siward became involved in Scottish politics and fought against Macbeth; and the next earl was the brother of a king of England.
		Northumbria became a place of ghosts and bandits, a dangerous land of people at the brink of starvation.
	www.durenmar.de /viduavasta/tribunal/northumberland.htm (2691 words)

	The TEUTONIC INVASIONS of CELTIC BRITAIN
		By the middle of the tenth century the kings of the royal house of Wessex became the rulers of the the whole of England.
		Northumbria was made up of two seperate kingdoms, Diera in the south and Bernicia in the north.
		Northumbria suffered heavily in the Viking invasions, and the Kingdom of Diera formed the nucleus of Viking Northumbria.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Column/1122/ANSAXNVA.htm (4690 words)

	Chronicle
		Penda of Mercia allied to Cynddylan of Powys defeats Oswald of Northumbria in the Battle of Maes Cogwy (Oswestry)
		Margaret, infant daughter of Eirik, King of Norway - by his wife Margaret a granddaughter of Alexander II of Scotland - is recognised as heiress to the scottish throne.
		Accession of the House of Stewart to the Scottish throne by Robert II son of Walter Stewart, sister's son of David II.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/chron.html (7132 words)

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		Aelle fought further battles in A.D. 485 and 491 and in the later conflict he and Cissa led forces that massacred all Britons gathered in the old Roman fort near Pevensey.
		Aelle was identified by Bede as the first of the Anglo-Saxon bretwaldas,king not only of the south Saxons but of all people south of the River Humber.
		Such survivals clearly indicate that in much of Bernicia [a kingdom of Northumbria] a substantial quantity of the native lands was probably left in the occupation of tributary British subjects under the new military aristocracy.
	www.law2.byu.edu /Thomas/Legal_History/SuppF.htm (17305 words)

	Reading_11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aelle fought further battles in 485 and 491, and in the later conflict he and Cissa led forces that massacred all Britons gathered in the old Roman fort near Pevensey.
		The southern part of Northumbria (the land north of the River Humber), known as the kingdom of Deira, was settled in the fifth century, probably by prerevolt mercenaries, but Aelle, the earliest known king, has only been dated to about 558.
		While all land was normally subject to certain secular burdens-taxation, military service, purveyance, labor, and judiciary duties267--Ine of Wessex went so far in 704 as to declare church lands perpetually exempt from taxation,268 and Wihtred of Kent exempted churches from all secular burdens,269 an act ratified by a church council in 742.
	www.law2.byu.edu /Thomas/Legal_History/Reading_11.html (15379 words)

	Anglo-Saxon Kings of Britain
		was allied to Cadwallon of Gwynedd and defeated Eadwini of Northumbria in 633.
		In 634 Cadwallon was defeated by Oswald of Northumbria and in 655 Penda was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria then allied to Cynddylan of Powys and Æthelhere of East-Anglia.
		Earl of Normandy and widow of Æthelred II, After his father's death the danish realm had first come to his brother Harald, Knut fortifying the danish holds in England.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/saxons.html (1633 words)

	MF - Life Ragnar was a heathen who claimed to be a direct descendant of the god Odin. One
		In 865, he landed in Northumbria on the northeast coast of England.
		It is claimed that here he was defeated in battle for the only time, by King Aelle II of Northumbria.
		Aelle's men captured Ragnar, and the King ordered him thrown into a pit filled with poisonous snakes.
	www.megafriends.com /profile.php?id=37418653 (787 words)

	Venerable Bede Page -- This page started out as a homework assignment in 1999 and has grown as people have found the ...
		In 875, after the second Viking raid on Lindisfarne, the body was moved to Northumbria, and rested at several sites until in 995 the casket was moved to Dunholme in what would become the City of Durham.
		King Edmund II of England (nicknamed Ironside for his military prowess), the son of King Æthelred, was elected King of England in London upon his father's death in 1016, but his danish rival, Canute the Great, enjoyed greater support throughout the rest of the countryside.
		It was from Northumbria that BP established a World Organization of Scouting, starting first with the British Empire.
	www.hightowertrail.com /SLT2000/Northumbria.htm (4182 words)

	Ancient British History
		Aelle founded the kingdom of the South Saxons, known as Sussex.
		Cadwallon went from boyhood friend of Edwin of Northumbria to mortal enemy in a few short years.
		Edward the Martyr didn't rule very long, but his legacy lives to this day, largely for the manner of his death and the amazing things that are purported to have happened since his death.
	www.suite101.com /reference/ancient_british_history (1118 words)

	The Northumbrian Renaissance
		The Seven Kingdoms were Northumbria (Deira and Bernicia), Mercia, East Anglia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex, and Kent.
		He defeated EGFRITH of Northumbria in the Battle of Nectansmere in 685, and was afterwards called the overlord of Pictland.
		He reigned from c.625 to 633 and was an ally of PENDA of Mercia.
	homepage.mac.com /jezreell/history/king.htm (3556 words)

	EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early Saxon Kingdoms AD 849-898
		867 - The rival monarchs of Northumbria, Aelle II and Osbert, join forces to expel the Vikings, but are thoroughly defeated at the Battle of York by Princes Ivarr the Boneless and Halfdan Wide-Embrace of Sjaelland and Uppsala (Scandinavia).
		Osbert is killed, while Aelle II is supposedly captured and 'Spread-Eagled', for complicity in the murder of the invaders' father, King Ragnarr Lothbrok.
		With the removal of the puppet King Rigsige of Northumbria, Prince Halfdan Wide-Embrace of Sjaelland and Uppsala (Scandinavia) formally establishes the Norse Kingdom of York with himself as its first monarch.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/kingdoms/849.html (1848 words)

	thePeerage.com - Osbeorht, King of Northumbria and others
		Osbeorht, King of Northumbria was the son of Ælle, King of Northumbria.
		Eadwulf II, King of Northumbria was the son of Ecgbeorht I, King of Northumbria.
		Ealdræd, King of Northumbria was the son of Eadwulf II, King of Northumbria.
	www.thepeerage.com /p15034.htm (1125 words)

	EBK: St. Edmund, King of East Anglia
		They landed in Northumbria, but were defeated in battle for the first (and only) time, by King Aelle II of that kingdom.
		In AD 867, Aelle II of Northumbria and his rival, Osbert, joined forces to expel the Vikings from the city, but were thoroughly defeated in battle.
		Osbert was killed and Aelle captured and 'spread-eagled' for having murdered Ragnarr Lothbrok.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/edmund_east_anglia.html (990 words)

	Wikinfo \| List of British monarchs
		James II's daughter, Mary II (1689-1694) and her husband William III (1689-1702), reigned together during Mary's life as "William and Mary"
		In 1707, with the Act of Union, the thrones of England and Scotland were formally united as the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
		The daughter of James (II of England; VII of Scotland), Anne (1707-1714)
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=British_Monarchs (1393 words)

	Toon Ale Newcastle Beer: Monarchs of Northumbria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Northumbria, an kingdom of Angles in northern England, was initially divided into two kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
		The exceptions are during the brief period from 633 to 634, when Northumbria was plunged into chaos by the death of King Edwin in battle and the subsequent ruinous invasion of Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd.
		Aelfwine was killed in battle against Mercia in 679, and there was not another separate king of Deira until the time of Norse rule.
	www.toonale.co.uk /monarchs.htm (327 words)

	anglo saxon settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Paeda the son of Penda is baptised and married to the daughter of King Oswy of Northumbria near the Roman Wall (Hexham?).
		Island, Northumbria and recorded much of the history, but archaeology has shown the picture of migration and settlement discussed to be more complex than he ever indicated.
		In the 600's Northumbria was strongest under King Edwin, by the 700's Mercia was ascendant under Egbert and Offa.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/anglosaxons.html (5130 words)

	Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Rulers of Northumbria in alphabetical order
		Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Rulers of Northumbria in alphabetical order
		Expelled after 27 days, went first to Lindisfarne and then to the king of the Picts; died 799
		Osred II Tonsured and driven in to exile; died 792, Sept 14
	www.pase.ac.uk /content/lists/rulers/northumbria_az.html (95 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		The Saxon chiefs Aelle and Cissa are said to have established themselves in Sussex (the "Southern Saxons"), apparently some time between 449 and 491.
		The story of Ambrosius as assimilated into the Authurian legends, as examined elsewhere, and the victory is supposed to have gained a respite.
		Especially noteworthy is the line of descent that involves rulers of York (Northumbria), the Isle of Man, and Dublin.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (6326 words)

	Et Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She died June 12, 918 at Tamworth (in battle?), aged about fifty, succeeded by her daughter Elfwynn, she expected Aethelstan, son of Edward the Elder to become king and control Mercia, which he did, taking the Mercian title from Elfwynn.
		Ethelred II, King of England "The Unready" Æthelraed II
		Ethelred died on the 23rd of April in London during Canute's invasion of England, leaving the struggle to Edmund II Ironside.
	www.packrat-pro.com /etn.htm (1802 words)

	Simon Keynes: Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography, Section F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Northumbria and East Anglia in the ninth century
		It is more difficult, for lack of comparable evidence, to form an impression of developments in Northumbria, or in East Anglia; and it must suffice here to emphasise that these kingdoms had histories of their own which are of no less interest for being even more obscure.
		English history in the ninth century should be approached with an eye on the Frankish kingdoms during the reigns of Louis the Pious (814-40), Charles the Bald (840-77), et al.
	www.wmich.edu /~medinst/research/rawl/keynesbib/bibliof.htm (4453 words)

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