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After the English from Wessex absorbed the Danish-ruled territories south of the Tees, Scots invasions reduced the rump Northumbria to an earldom stretching from the Tyne to the Tweed. The surviving Earldom of Northumbria, alongside the Haliwerfolk between the Tyne and Tees, were then disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and ...
Its origin is the Danelaw region and dates to 870–930. In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild. With his accession the throne became firmly established in the hands of a single lineage.
Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira. The two were first united by king Æthelfrith around the year 604, and except for occasional periods of division over the subsequent century, they remained so.
The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms [1][2][3] of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they were consolidated in the 8th century into the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex. The term 'Heptarchy' (from the Greek ἑπταρχία, 'heptarchia ...
Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold —sometimes Uchtred; died c. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I, ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg), whose family the Eadwulfingas had ruled the surrounding region for over a century. Uhtred's death by assassination was described in De ...
King Æthelred of Wessex, who had been leading the conflict against the Vikings, died in 871 and was succeeded on the throne of Wessex by his younger brother, Alfred. [35] The Viking king of Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene )—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen ...
King of Wessex (King of the Gewissae) 534 to 560. Cynric. Son, or according to some sources grandson, of Cerdic. 560 to 591. Ceawlin. Son of Cynric. Possibly Celtic, Brythonic, name. 591 to 597.
The greatest and most powerful of all Mercian kings, he proclaimed himself King of the English in 774, built Offa's Dyke, and introduced the silver penny. 29 Jul 796. Ecgfrith. 787–796. Son of Offa. Co-ruler, died suddenly a few months after his father. 17 Dec 796. Cœnwulf.