Ecgfrith of Northumbria - Ecgfrith of Northumbria Ecgfrith (d. 20 May 685 Angus, Scotland), king of Northumbria, succeeded his father Oswio in 671. He was married to Æthelthryth, daughter of Anna of East Anglia, who, however, took the veil shortly after Ecgfrith's accession, a step which possibly led to his long quarrel with Wilfrid archbishop of York. Ecgfrith married a second wife, Eormenburg, before 678, the year in which he expelled Wilfrid from his kingdom. Early in his reign he defeated the Picts who had risen in revolt. Between 671 and 675 Ecgfrith defeated Wulfhere of Mercia and seized Lindsey. In 679, however, he was defeated by Æthelred of Mercia, who had married his sister Osthreth, on the river Trent. Ecgfrith's brother Ælfwine was killed in the battle, and the province.
Edwin of Northumbria - Edwin of Northumbria Saint Æduini, Edwine or Edwin (c. 584-October 12, 633), king of Northumbria, was the son of Ælla. On the seizure of Deira by Æthelfrith of Bernicia, his brother-in-law, (probably 605), Edwin was expelled and is said to have taken refuge with Cadfan, king of Gwynedd. After the battle of Chester, in which Æthelfrith defeated the Welsh, Edwin fled to Raedwald, king of East Anglia, who after some wavering supported his cause and defeated and killed Ælthelfrith at the river Idle in 617. Edwin then succeeded to the Northumbrian throne, driving out the sons of Æthelfrith. We have little evidence of Edwin's activity outside of Northumbria before 625. It is probable that the conquest of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet, located in the neighbourhood of.
Aethelfrith of Northumbria - Aethelfrith of Northumbria Æthelfrith (?-616), king of Northumbria, is said to have come to the throne in AD 593, being the son of Æthelric (probably reigned 568-572). He married Acha, daughter of Ælla, king of Deira, whom he succeeded probably in 605, expelling his son Edwin. In 603 he repelled the attack of Aidan, king of the Dalriad Scots, at Daegsastan, defeating him with great loss. The appearance of Hering, son of Hussa, Æthelfrith's predecessor, on the side of the invaders seems to indicate family quarrels in the royal house of Bernicia. Later in his reign, probably in 614, he defeated the Welsh in a great battle at Chester and massacred the monks of Bangor who were assembled to aid them by their prayers. This war may.
Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria - Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls, remaining in England for a decade after the Norman conquest. He was a son of Earl Siward of Northumbria, and, although he was probably educated for a monastic life, became earl of Huntingdon and Northampton about 1065. After the Battle of Hastings he submitted to William the Conqueror; but when the Danes invaded the north of England in 1069 he joined them and took part in the attack on York, only, however, to make a fresh submission after their departure in 1070. Then, restored to his earldom, he married William's niece, Judith, and in 1072 was appointed earl of Northumbria. In 1075 Waltheof joined the conspiracy against the king arranged by.
Oswiu of Northumbria - Oswiu of Northumbria Oswiu, also Oswio, Oswy, Osuiu (c. 612 - 670), king of Northumbria and Bretwalda, son of Æthelfrith and brother of Oswald, whom he succeeded in Bernicia in 642 after the battle of Maserfeld, was the seventh of the great English kings enumerated by Bede. He succeeded in making the majority of the Britons, Picts and Scots tributary to him. At Gilling in 651 he caused the murder of Oswine, a relative of Edwin who had become king of Deira, and a few years later took possession of that kingdom. He appears to have consolidated his power by the aid of the Church and by a series of judicious matrimonial alliances. It was probably in 642 that he married Eanfled, daughter of Edwin, thus uniting.
Northumbria - Northumbria Northumbria was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England, named from lying north of the River Humber. Northumbria was originally composed of the union of two independent kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira. King Edwin of Deira (616-32) accepted Christianity in 627 and was Bretwalda of England from 627-632. The Heptarchy: Wessex Essex Kent Sussex Mercia East Anglia Northumbria Northumbria has been adopted by the English Tourist Board as the name of a region in the North East of England, which comprises of Northumberland, County Durham and Tees Valley (cleveland). It is also used as another name for Northumberland in then name of Northumbria Police..
Morcar, Earl of Northumbria - Morcar, Earl of Northumbria Morcar, Earl of Northumbria (fl. 1066), was the son of Earl Ælfgar, brother of Edwin, earl of the Mercians. They assisted the Northumbrians to expel Tostig, of the house of Godwin, in 1065 and Morcar was chosen earl by the rebels. Harold, Tostig's brother, consented to this extension of the power of the Mercian house. In spite of this concession, and the help which he gave them against Tostig and Harald Hardråde, the two brothers left him to fight alone at Hastings. After trying to secure the crown for their own house, they submitted to William, but lost their earldoms. They attempted to raise the North in 1068, and failed ignominiously. They were pardoned, but Morcar afterwards joined Hereward in the Isle of Ely.
Kenneth II of Scotland - ravaging the British kingdom, but he lost a large part of his force on the river Cornag. Soon afterwards he attacked Eadulf, earl of the northern half of Northumbria, and ravaged the whole of his territory. He fortified the fords of the Forth as a defence against the Britons and again invaded Northumbria, carrying off the earl's son. About this time he gave the city of Brechin to the church. According to the English chroniclers, Kenneth paid homage to King Edgar for the cession of Lothian, but these statements are probably due to the controversy as to the position of Scotland. The mormaers, or chiefs, of Kenneth were engaged throughout his reign in a contest with Sigurd the Norwegian, earl of Orkney, for the possession of Caithness and the northern district.
Kingdom of Sussex - slew all the inhabitants. Ella is the first king of the invading race whom Bede describes as exercising supremacy over his fellows, and we may probably regard him as an historical person, though little weight can be attached to the dates given by the Chronicle. The history of Sussex now becomes a blank until 607, in which year Ceolwulf of Wessex is found fighting against the South Saxons. In 681 Wilfrid of York, on his expulsion from Northumbria by Ecgfrith, retired into Sussex, where he remained until 686 converting its pagan inhabitants. According to Bede, AEthelwald, king of Sussex, had been previously baptized in Mercia at the suggestion of Wulfhere, who presented him with the Isle of Wight and the district about the Meon. After Wilfrid's exertions in relieving a famine.
Kirkcudbrightshire - on the shores of the Solway Firth. They are best developed about Kirkbean, where they include a basal red breccia followed by conglomerates, grits and cement stones of Calciferous Sandstone age. Brick-red sandstones of Permian age just come within the county on the W. side of the Nith at Dumfries. Volcanic necks occur in the Permian and basalt dikes penetrate the Silurian at Borgue, Kirkandrews, etc. Most of the highest ground is formed by the masses of granite which have been intruded into the Ordovician and Silurian rocks; the Criffel mass lies about Dalbeattie and Bengairn, another mass extends east and west between the Cairnsmore of Fleet and Loch Ken, another lies NW. and S.E. between Loch Doon and Loch Dee and a small mass forms the Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. Glacial.
Jack Charlton - of limited resources (soccer being a minority passion in the republic at the time, the popular code being Gaelic football). Through a policy of employing simple tactics and finding players mainly in the English league who had an Irish-born parent or grandparent but hadn't considered themselves to be Irish, the Republic qualified for the World Cup finals in both 1990 and 1994, famously defeating Italy in 1994. Following his retirement from management in 1994, Charlton can sometimes be found as a tv football pundit, though he also owns a pub in Dublin, and is Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Northumbria..
Justus - fled into Gaul, but was recalled after a year and restored to his bishopric (see Laurence of Canterbury). He succeeded Mellitus as archbishop in 624, consecrated Romanus as his successor at Rochester, and sent Paulinus to Northumbria. He received the pallium from Pope Boniface V..
Hammered dulcimer - East throughout recorded history. In Eastern Europe a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is also played which has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltan Kodaly and Igor Stravinsky. The instrument has seen somewhat of a revival in America in the Americal Folk music and Bluegrass traditions. It is also still played in Wales, Northumbria, and the Middle East..
Harold II of England - swift approval of the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, for his own coronation as king, which took place the following day. The country faced the threat of invasion, however, by both Harald of Norway and William, duke of Normandy, who maintained that he had been promised the English crown by both Edward (probably in 1052) and Harold, who had been shipwrecked in Normandy in 1064 or 1065. It was alleged that, on the latter occasion, William forced Harold to swear to support his claim to the throne, only revealing after the event that the box on which he had made his oath contained holy relics. Invading what is now Yorkshire in September 1066, Harald Hardrada and Tostig defeated and killed the English earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar.
Harald III of Norway - now king of Norway, but soon broke faith with Sven and accepted an offer from Magnus of half his kingdom. In return for this gift Harald is said to have shared with Magnus the enormous treasure which he had amassed in the East. The death of Magnus in 1047 put an end to the growing jealousies between the two kings, and Harald turned all his attention to the task of subjugating Denmark, which he ravaged year after year; but he met with such stubborn resistance from Sven that in 1064 he gave up the attempt and made peace. Two years afterwards, possibly instigated by the banished Earl Tostig of Northumbria, he attempted the conquest of England, to the sovereignty of which his predecessor had advanced a claim as successor of Harthacanute..
Hallamshire - area of South Yorkshire, England. It was the southernmost district of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. It covers all of the present-day borough of Sheffield, excepting the southern areas formerly in Derbyshire. Hallamshire is often used as a synonym for Hallam, which has come to mean, broadly speaking, that area of Yorkshire in the foothills of the Peak District and southwest of the River Don. The region includes much of western Sheffield, and the parish of Bradfield. Sheffield Hallam is a parliamentary constituency in western Sheffield, and is one of the wealthiest areas in Britain. Sheffield Hallam University is named for the district, but the main university buildings are not in the region, whereas most of the University of Sheffield is. Settlements in Hallam include: Bradfield, Broomhill Crookes Fulwood Stannington, Strines.
Vortigern - sailing three hundred years, and half of that time, a hundred and fifty years, should plunder and despoil the same." Both of these details are unlikely to have been invented by a Roman or Celtic source. Modern scholars have debated the various details of Gildas' story, and attempted to pry open his language after more information. One point of discussion has been over the words Gildas uses to describe the Saxon's subsidies (annonas, epimenia), and whether they are legal terms used in a treaty of foederati, a late Roman political practice of settling allied barbarian peoples, within the boundaries of the Empire to furnish troops to aid in the defence of the Empire. Further, it is not known if private individuals imitated this practice. Another point of debate has been exactly.
Heptarchy - historian of the twelfth century, and has been common since the sixteenth century. This term, heptarchy, is Greek for "seven rulers", referring to the fact that between the two years mentioned above it was thought that England was divided into seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex. However more careful study has shown that on one hand some of these kingdoms -- notably Essex and Sussex -- never achieved the same rank of power in England at any time as did the rest, while after an early period of renown Kent was considered a minor kingdom under the sway of one of the other kingdoms, much as Essex and Sussex were. Further, research has shown that a number of political divisions played a far more important role.
Humber - Ancholme on the south shore; past North Ferriby and South Ferriby, under the Humber Bridge and past Barton-upon-Humber and then into the North Sea at Spurn. In the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. Indeed the name Northumbria simply indicates the area North of the Humber. It currently forms the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire between Faxfleet and Spurn Head. Two fortifications were built in the mouth of the river in 1914, the Humber Forts. See also Rivers of the United Kingdom Humber was also the name of a make of British car, which disappeared after mergers in the 1960s. See Humber (car)..
York Minster - destroyed by fire on two occasions; the current device dates from 1829 and was substantially restored in 1993. History York has had a Christian presence from the 300s. The first church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfred ascended to the see of York; he put in place efforts to repair and renew the structure. The attached school and library were established and by the 8th century were some of the most substantial in northern Europe. In 741.
