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What was to become Northumbria started as two kingdoms, Deira in the south and Bernicia in the north. Conflict in the first half of the seventh century ended with the murder of the last king of Deira in 651, and Northumbria was thereafter unified under Bernician kings. At its height, the kingdom extended from the Humber, Peak District and the ...
This timeline summarises significant events in the history of Northumbria and Northumberland. 500 559 – Ida of Bernicia is the first known King of Bernicia ; he reigned from 547 to 559. 588 – The first king of Deira was Ælla of Deira who ruled from 560 until his death in 588. 600 604 – Aethelfrith unites Bernicia and Deira to form Northumbria. 613 – Æthelfrith engaged in the Battle ...
History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
History of Northumberland. Northumberland, England 's northernmost county, is a land where Roman occupiers once guarded a walled frontier, Anglian invaders fought with Celtic natives, and Norman lords built castles to suppress rebellion and defend a contested border with Scotland. The present-day county is a vestige of an independent kingdom ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:41, 30 November 2022: 586 × 594 (800 KB): Purplewowies: Reverted to version as of 22:26, 14 June 2019 (UTC) The new upload last month appears to have primarily been intended to change the serif font to sans serif but whatever was used to do it caused serious problems with how this looks--some of the labels are even unreadable
From the mid-1980s, the eight English Civil Defence Regions were as follows (using 1974/1975 boundaries): North East England. (North East England) – Cleveland / Durham / Northumberland / Tyne and Wear. (Yorkshire and the Humber) – Humberside / North Yorkshire / South Yorkshire / West Yorkshire. East Midlands.
According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia. H. R. Loyn has observed in this context that "a sea voyage is perilous to tribal institutions", [17] and the apparently tribe-based kingdoms were formed in England. Early times ...
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...