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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 (died 616?) 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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Nov 29, 2018 · He capitalized on the gains made by Aethelfrith and expanded the kingdom further, prompting responses from Mercia and Wessex. In Wessex, King Cynegils (r. 611-643 CE) divided his kingdom in half, giving the north to his son Cwichelm (d. 636 CE) to create a buffer state should Northumbria attack.
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- Northumbria. Northumbria was a region that stretched across the neck of northern England and covered much of the east coast and parts of southern Scotland.
- Mercia. Mercia was a large kingdom that covered most of middle England. Its fortunes fluctuated as it was bordered on all sides by potentially hostile rivals.
- Wessex. Wessex was an unstable, but fertile country that covered most of the south west of modern-day England. It was bordered by the Celtic kingdoms of Cornwall to its west, Mercia to its north and Kent to the east.
- East Anglia. East Anglia was the smallest of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but powerful during the reign of the Wuffingas dynasty. In the early 7th century, King Rædwald was baptised as a Christian, and the area has a lack of pagan settlement names, suggesting it was one of the earliest parts of England to adopt Christianity on a larger scale.
Æthelfrith ( / ˈæθəlfrɪθ /; died c. 904/915) was an ealdorman of southern Mercia, who flourished in the last two decades of the ninth century and the first decade of the tenth century. His father is unknown. He was married to Æthelgyth, daughter of Æthelwulf; Æthelwulf is unidentified, but a possible candidate is King Alfred the Great ...
Kent. 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.
England was divided into four kingdoms in the mid-ninth century: East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex. Mercia had once been the most powerful kingdom in Southern Britain, but its power was greatly diminished after a series of military defeats in the 820s. Now unable to dominate their neighbours, Mercia began collaborating with its old ...
