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  Northumbria - LoveToKnow 1911
The first king of Deira of whom we know was Ella, or Aelle, who, according to Bede, was still reigning when Augustine arrived in 597.
At his death in 633 the kingdom was again divided, Deira falling to his nephew Osric, while Bernicia was occupied by Eanfrith son of ZEthelfrith.
Oswine's death was compassed by Oswio in 651, and the throne of Deira was then obtained by 1-Ethelwald son of Oswald.
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 Anglo Saxon Royalty
Bernicia was again separate from Deira under Eanfrith, son of Aethelfrith (633?634), after which date the kings of Bernicia were supreme in Northumbria, though for a short time under Oswiu Deira had a king of its own.
He invaded Deira in 651, and slew Oswine, after whose death he ruled all Northumbria (651 - 70), and gained supremacy over all Mercia, the South Angles, East Angles, and East Saxons, as well as many Britons and Scots, He was the 7th Bretwalda of the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle.
Deira (from Brythonic "Deifr", meaning "waters" and pronounced Deywr in the Celtic tongue) was a kingdom in England during the 6th century AD.
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 Encyclopedia: Edwin of Northumbria
He was the son of Aella of Deira and the brother of Aethelric of Deira.
Around the year 604, upon the seizure of Deira by his brother-in-law, Æthelfrith of Bernicia, Edwin was expelled and took refuge with the king of Gwynedd, Cadfan ap Iago.
Besides York, Yeavering and Maelmin in Bernicia, and Catterick in Deira, were the chief scenes of the work of Paulinus.
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 Æthelfrith of Northumbria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the first king to unite Northumbria, which had previously been divided between the kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia, and he was especially notable for his successes against the Britons.
Aethelfrith invaded Deira in 604, conquering it and killing its king, Aethelric.
He subsequently married Acha, daughter of the former King Aella of Deira (father of Aethelric).
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 Edwin of Northumbria Biography
He was the son of Aella of Deira and the brother of Aethelric of Deira.
Around the year 604, upon the seizure of Deira by his brother-in-law, Æthelfrith of Bernicia, Edwin was expelled and took refuge with the king of Gwynedd, Cadfan ap Iago.
It was the influence of Edwin which led to the conversion of Eorpwald of East Anglia.
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AEthelfrith eventually acquired possession of Deira, probably in 604 or 605, perhaps on Ella's death, expelling his son Edwin (q.v.).
At his death in 633 the kingdom was again divided, Deira falling to his nephew Osric, while Bernicia was occupied by Eanfrith son of 1Ethelfrith.
Oswine's death was compassed by Oswio in 651, and the throne of Deira was then obtained by sEthelwald son of Oswald.
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 Deira: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
...867, 868 Subjugation of Deira and Bernicia 241...Guthred Danish King of Deira -- 886...Banishment of Earl Hakon; Siward Earl of Deira; Leofric, son of Leofwine, Earl of Mercia...
Conquest of Deira by the Bernician King AEthelric 211 The...Ravages Bernicia 287 651.
DEIRA de ir, old English kingdom between the Humber and the Tyne rivers.
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 Games Fresh : Article 'Deira'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Deira (from Brythonic Deifr, meaning "waters") was a kingdom in England during the 6th century AD.
After his death, Deira was subject to king Æthelfrith of Bernicia, who united the two kingdoms into Northumbria.
Osric, the nephew of Edwin, ruled Deira after Edwin, but his son Oswine was put to death by Oswiu in 651.
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 Aethelric of Deira -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
He was the son of (Click link for more info and facts about Aella of Deira) Aella of Deira and the brother of (King of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)) Edwin.
Deira was invaded by (Click link for more info and facts about Aethelfrith) Aethelfrith of (Click link for more info and facts about Bernicia) Bernicia in about the year 604.
Aethelric was defeated and probably killed, and thereafter Aethelfrith ruled Deira and Bernicia together as (An Anglo-Saxon kingdom in northern England until 876) Northumbria.
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 Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Bernicia
It also seems possible that the Bernician Angles had a hand in founding Deira as an independent kingdom, as tradition and King Ida's date of death indicate fighting against British Ebrauc was undertaken.
Uniting the kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira after the two had increasingly become dominated by the Bernicians to the north, it was known by Anglo-Saxons of the time by the names in brackets.
This means "the people of the river", referring to the Humber, which at the time was applied to the entire region which was drained by the tributaries of the Humber river system, from the Ouse as far north as York to at least the lower course of the Trent.
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 The Heroic Age: Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria, N/B
Deira was likely part of a Humbrian overkingship with remaining ties to other kingdoms in the former province of Britannia Secunda like Rheged.
It is possible that Ælfwine son of Oswiu became king of Deira in 670 at the age of nine when his brother Ecgfrith became king of Bernicia and overking of Deira (i.e.
The annexation of Deira to the Bernician kingdom was also still very much a work in progress decreasing the likelihood that governance of the sub-kingdom or province could be trusted to a youth.
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 Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 597 AD-687 AD
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.
King Aethelfrith of Bernicia and Deira is killed in the fighting and his children are forced to flee north.
Eanfrith's half-brother, Oswald succeeds, as son of Aethelfrith of Bernicia and Acha of Deira, to a united Northumbria.
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 EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early Saxon Kingdoms AD 597-649
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.
King Aethelfrith of Bernicia and Deira is killed in the fighting and his children are forced to flee north.
Enfrith's half-brother, Oswald succeeds, as son of Aethelfrith of Bernicia and Acha of Deira, to a united Northumbria.
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 Bernicia information - Search.com
In the early 7th century, it merged with its southern neighbour, Deira, to form the kingdom of Northumbria and its borders subsequently expanded considerably.
The kings of Bernicia were thereafter supreme in that kingdom, although Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of Oswiu and his son Ecgfrith.
Under Oswald son of Æthelfrith, Bernicia was united with Deira to form Northumbria from 634 onward.
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 List of monarchs of Northumbria - InformationBlast
Another exception is a period from about the year 644 to 664, when kings ruled individually over Deira; however, these were merely sub-kings and rarely exercised much independence.
In 670, the brother of King Ecgfrith, Aelfwine, was made king of Deira, but by this point the title appears to have been little more than a formality, perhaps meant to designate Aelfwine as Ecgfrith's heir.
Aelfwine was killed in battle against Mercia in 679, and there was not another separate king of Deira until the time of Norse rule.
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 The Heroic Age: Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria
It is possible that Deira and Mercia had a close relationship since the Historia Brittonum notes that Penda was the first to separate the Mercians or south Humbrians from the northerners (Kirby 1991:64-65).
Osric, a cousin of Edwin, came to the throne in Deira, Eanfrith son of Æthelfrith in Bernicia, and, in the same year, Eanfrith's brother-in-law Gartnait son of Wid came to the throne of the Picts (See Fig.
Oswald's conquest of Deira caused the exile of his cousins: Edwin's son Uscfrea and his grandson Yffi, Oswine son of Osric, and probably also the death of Eadfrith son of Edwin who had been taken prisoner by Penda after the battle of Hatfield Chase (See Fig.
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 North of the Humber quiz -- free game
Allthough Deira was the older of the two Anglian kingdoms to the north of the Humber, the first to be noted in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle was that of Bernicia.
Ida captured and restored the fortress that was later to be known as Bamburgh.
However the 'Historia Brittonum' includes a genealogy of the kings of Deira, which notes a chieftain responsible for the begining of the kingdom.
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 List of monarchs of Northumbria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles in northern England, was initially divided into two kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
Another exception is a period from about the year 644 to 664, when kings ruled individually over Deira.
In 670, Aelfwine, the brother of the childless King Ecgfrith, was made king of Deira; by this point the title may have been used primarily to designate an heir.
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 Deira - Encyclopedia.com
Deira, old English kingdom between the Humber and the Tyne rivers.
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 Aethelwald of Deira -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
After (Click link for more info and facts about Oswine of Deira) Oswine of Deira was killed by King (Click link for more info and facts about Oswiu of Northumbria) Oswiu of Northumbria in (Click link for more info and facts about 651) 651, Aethelwald became king.
Penda was defeated, perhaps in large part because of this desertion, and afterward Aethelwald seems to have lost Deira to Alchfrith, who was installed there by the victorious Oswiu.
Chad, to whom he granted land for a (The residence of a religious community) monastery.
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 Deira --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
There is a tradition that its first recorded king, Aelle, reigned from 560 and that, on his death in 588 or 590, Deira was seized by Aethelric of Bernicia, whose son…
There is a tradition that its first recorded king, Aelle, reigned from 560 and that, on his death in 588 or 590, Deira was seized by Aethelric...
On Aelle's death the Bernician king Aethelric again subdued Deira, but Aelle's son Edwin (q.v.) would return to rule as the most powerful English...
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 Events
Aethelric seized Deira on death of Aelle; Aelle’s son Edwin banished
Oswui’s son Alhfrith (Alcfrid) succeeds Oswin as King of sub-kingdom Deira.
Theodore divides Wilfrid’s diocese - Bosa (monk from Whitby) to Deira with his seat at York and Eata (of Melrose and Ripon) to Bernicia with seat at either Hexham or Lindisfarne.
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 Aethelric of Deira - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Aethelric of Deira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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 Northvegr - Angliad
These kingdoms included Northumbria, which was divided between Deira (whose rulers were descended from Wægdæg son of Woden), and Bernicia - whose kings were of the blood of Bældæg, as were those of Wessex.
The first king of Deira was Ælle, whose father was Yffe, whose father was Uxfrea, whose father was Wilgisl, whose father was Sæfugel, whose father was Sæbald, whose father was Sigegeat, whose father was Swebdæg, whose father was Sigegar, whose father was Wægdæg son of Woden.
But sometimes the Angles and sometimes the Britons were victorious, and Urien besieged them for three days and three nights in the island of Lindisfarne; but while he was out on a raid he was murdered by an agent of Morcant, who envied him his prowess.
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 Background
On Ida’s death Deira, the Kingdom south of the Tyne, threw off the Bernician over lordship and Aelle became King of Deira in 559 whilst Ida's descendants continued to reign in the northern Kingdom of Bernicia.
In 601 the Roman monk Paulinus was sent to England by the Pope to assist Augustine and was consecrated bishop at Kent in 625.
So the upshot of all this political upheaval and its affect on Christian development at the time of St Wilfrid was that in 627 there had been a very brief introduction of the Roman church that virtually died in 632 (two years before the birth of Wilfrid) with the death of Edwin.
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 Edinburgh - What's In A Name
Prince Edwin was the son of Ælla, deceased King of Deira, and next in line to his throne.
When Æthelric, Æthelfrith's father, had wrested the Kingdom from him, Edwin was only four years old; he was taken to safety, and began a long exile for the next quarter century among the Anglo-Saxon kings of the south.
He was later declared a saint of the church, his death being seen as a martyrdom, although he is not given a feast day in the calendar.
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 thePeerage.com - Theoderic, King of Bernicia and others
     Ælle, King of Deira was the son of Yffi.
     Aethelric, King of Deira succeeded to the title of King Aethelric of Deira in 599.
     Osric, King of Deira was the son of Ælfric.
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