Search results
Edwin of Northumbria. Edwin ( Old English: Ēadwine; c. 586 – 12 October 632/633), also known as Eadwine or Æduinus, was the King of Deira and Bernicia – which later became known as Northumbria – from about 616 until his death. He converted to Christianity and was baptised in 627.
Edwin was an Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria from 616 to 633. He was the most powerful English ruler of his day and the first Christian king of Northumbria. The son of King Aelle of Deira, one of the two Northumbrian kingdoms, Edwin fled into exile when Aethelric, king of Bernicia, seized power in
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Northumbria, “North of the Humber” was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom formed by merging Bernicia, north of the Tees, with Deira to the south. Northumbria’s first two kings were a Bernician called Æthelfrith and a Deiran called Edwin. Æthelfrith was a pagan, but King Edwin of Northumbria became the North’s first Christian king after baptism at ...
Edwin tried his best to support Paulinus in the enlightenment of his native kingdom Northumbria. The Roman city of York was chosen for Paulinus as his episcopal see. Edwin undertook the construction of a splendid large stone church in York himself, though it was completed after his martyrdom, under his successor, St. Oswald.
Northumbria (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b r i ə ... Edwin fell in battle in 633 against Cadwallon of Gwynedd and the pagan Penda of Mercia. He was venerated as a saint and ...
People also ask
Who was Edwin the king of Northumbria?
Who is King Edwin in the north?
Who were Northumbria's first kings?
Who was Edwin the king of Deira?
New Catholic Encyclopedia. EDWIN, KING OF NORTHUMBRIA, ST. B. 585; d. Oct. 12, 633. As king of Deira (616) Edwin first united the Northumbrian kingdoms, and then became overlord of all English peoples south of the Humber except those of Kent. In 625 he married ethelburga, daughter of ethelbert of kent. After his baptism by his wife's chaplain ...
Edwin of Northumbria. The main source of information for Edwin is to be found in the works of Bede, who was writing almost 100 years after Edwin’s death. Bede was a monk in Jarrow who wrote around 70 or more books, one of which was the incredibly influential “Ecclesiastical History of the English People” and he tells us much of the story ...
Related searches
Searches related to Edwin of Northumbria
king edwin of northumbria st. edwin of northumbria saint edwin of northumbria saint edwin of northumbria martyr
