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Æthelfrith (died c. 616) was King of Bernicia from c. 593 until his death around 616 AD at the Battle of the River Idle. He became the first Bernician king to also rule the neighboring land of Deira, giving him an important place in the development and the unification of the later kingdom of Northumbria.
Aethelfrith was the king of Bernicia (from 592/593) and of Deira, which together formed Northumbria. Aethelfrith was the son of Aethelric and grandson of Ida, king of Bernicia, and his reign marks the true beginning of the continuous history of a united Northumbria and, indeed, of England.
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Northumbria. Sussex. Wessex. 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.
Nov 29, 2018 · Unification Under Aethelfrith. Ida was the first king of Bernicia; he may have initiated the conflict with Deira by expanding his kingdom toward the south. Aethelfrith, grandson of Ida, expanded his kingdom through military conquest and repopulating formerly British regions with citizens from Bernicia.
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Northumbria in the age of Æthelfrith and Edwin : AD 598 – 633. 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.
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Apr 1, 1999 · The Kings of Northumbria. Compiled by Peter Kessler, with Richard Watson, 1 April 1999. Updated 2 June 2007. Edwin (588-593 in Deira, 616-632 in Deira & Bernicia combined) Edwin was the son of Ælle (Aelli), the first independent ruler of the Anglian-held region of Deira. Following his father's death he reigned for nearly five years.
Æthelfryth (d. c. 616), king of Northumbria ( c. 593– c. 616), was said by Bede to be the cruellest enemy of the Britons, slaughtering, enslaving, and opening the way for further Anglo-Saxon settlement. It was probably Æthelfryth who defeated the British at Catterick (north Yorks.), lamented in the Welsh poem, Gododdin.
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