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    of the last kings of the Deiran line to reign over all of Northumbria. Oswald's brother Oswiu eventually succeeded him to the Northumbrian throne despite...
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    born on an uncertain date to Oswiu of Northumbria and an Irish princess named Fín. Oswiu later became King of Northumbria; he died in 670 and was succeeded...
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  • Synod of Whitby (category Northumbria)
    Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe...
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    painstaking attention to detail, this was astonishingly generous. King Oswiu of Northumbria appointed his nephew, Œthelwald, to administer the coastal area of...
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  • rule. After Wilfrid's return to Northumbria in about 658, Cenwalh, King of Wessex, recommended Wilfrid to Alhfrith, Oswiu's son, as a cleric well-versed...
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    ecclesiastical lands he had been deprived of in Northumbria. Æthelred's wife, Osthryth, was a daughter of King Oswiu, one of the dominant 7th-century Northumbrian...
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    Whitby Abbey (category Burial sites of the Royal House of Northumbria)
    monastery was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon era King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the older name for Whitby). He appointed Lady...
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    655, after a period of confusion in Northumbria, Penda brought 30 sub-kings to fight the new Northumbrian king Oswiu at the Battle of Winwaed, in which...
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    644 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    objections from King Oswiu of Bernicia. His succession, probably the choice of the people of Deira, splits the Kingdom of Northumbria. Valentinus, Byzantine...
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  • Philippines mystery drama film Fín (died 604), Gaelic princess, wife of Oswiu of Northumbria Finns, people from Finland Fin Bartels (born 1987), German football...
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  • common than the full name. Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd, abbess of Whitby Abbey (654–714) Saint Ælfthryth of...
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    Oswiu brought his year old daughter Ælfflæd to his kinswoman Hilda to be brought up at the abbey. (Hild was the grand-niece of Edwin of Northumbria;...
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  • Lordship of Bowland (category De Lacy family)
    Bowland is Brady Brim-DeForest. While a lineage for the barony can be traced back speculatively through the Earls of Northumbria to Oswiu and his marriage...
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    Bernicia (category Northumbria)
    Northumbria. The kings of Bernicia were thereafter supreme in that kingdom, although Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of Oswiu and...
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    conquered Northumbria, defeating and killing its king, Edwin, prior to his own death in battle against Oswald of Bernicia. His conquest of Northumbria, which...
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    king to be buried at Tynemouth, was interred at the site by his murderer Oswiu, a Bernician king, who established the convent in penance. An abbey at the...
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    interview with the holy abbess and royal virgin Elfleda, the daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria, who succeeded St Hilda as abbess of Whitby in 680. The meeting was...
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  • Myrddin Wyllt Nennius of Britain Octa of Kent Oenus Oswald of Northumbria Oswiu of Northumbria Owain mab Urien Pandrasus Penda of Mercia Peredur Peredurus...
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    and 6th centuries (conventionally identified as seven main kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex); their Christianisation...
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  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae 1.17 Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.20 Orosius, Seven Books of History Against the Pagans 6.9...
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    Myrddin Wyllt Nennius of Britain Octa of Kent Oenus Oswald of Northumbria Oswiu of Northumbria Owain mab Urien Pandrasus Penda of Mercia Peredur Peredurus...
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    Myrddin Wyllt Nennius of Britain Octa of Kent Oenus Oswald of Northumbria Oswiu of Northumbria Owain mab Urien Pandrasus Penda of Mercia Peredur Peredurus...
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  • 670s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    begin the blockade of Constantinople by sea. February 15 – King Oswiu of Northumbria dies during a pilgrimage to Rome in the company of bishop Wilfrid...
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    Myrddin Wyllt Nennius of Britain Octa of Kent Oenus Oswald of Northumbria Oswiu of Northumbria Owain mab Urien Pandrasus Penda of Mercia Peredur Peredurus...
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    Myrddin Wyllt Nennius of Britain Octa of Kent Oenus Oswald of Northumbria Oswiu of Northumbria Owain mab Urien Pandrasus Penda of Mercia Peredur Peredurus...
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    regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called De gestis Britonum (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical account...
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    who now reigns peacefully" it must date to between 685 and 704. Oswiu of Northumbria (642–70) only won authority over the southern kingdoms after he defeated...
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  • is south and eastern England. However, Arthurian writers such as Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach have differed in their interpretations of...
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    Igraine's grandfather or great-grandfather through Amlawdd Wledig. In Robert de Boron's poem Merlin, Igraine's previous husband is an unnamed Duke of Tintagel...
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  • Geoffrey's fiction with known history, implying that the future King Edwin of Northumbria had actually spent his youth at the court of King Cadfan, growing up...
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