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| | Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds |
 | | Eadwine was the first Christian Saxon king of the north, and the patron of Paulinus, but was slain in battle by Penda, the pagan king of Mercia, who had vowed to extirpate the heresy of Christianity from the island, and Paulinus, with the Queen and young Princes, fled to the kingdom of Kent. |
 | | Oswy murdered Oswine, becoming thus king of Northumbria; and defeated the incorrigible old pagan, Penda, who had again invaded Northumbria, in the battle of Winwinfield, in which the Mercian king fell. |
 | | At the time of the death of Oswine, Alchfrid was a bold energetic and ambitious young man, and persuaded his father, partly by menaces, to place him as his co-adjutor, on the throne of Deira. |
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