• Eardwulf (fl. 790 – c. 830) was king of Northumbria from 796 to 806, when he was deposed and went into exile. He may have had a second reign from 808...
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  • Eardwulf or Eardulf is an Anglo-Saxon male name. Notable people with the name include: Eardwulf of Northumbria, (floruit late 8th/early 9th century), ruler...
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    Northumbria had collapsed. Eanred was the son of King Eardwulf, who was deposed by an otherwise unknown Ælfwald in 806. According to the History of the...
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    (1969), pp. 1–15. Rollason, David (2004). "Eardwulf (fl. 796–c.830), king of Northumbria". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press...
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  • Belarus and Ukraine (approximate date). King Eardwulf of Northumbria has his men seize Prince Ealhmund, son of the late King Alhred, and put him to death...
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    Alhred or Alchred was king of Northumbria from 765 to 774. He had married Osgifu, either the daughter of Oswulf, granddaughter of Eadberht Eating, or Eadberht's...
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    810. Leo helped restore King Eardwulf of Northumbria and settled various matters of dispute between the archbishops of York and Canterbury. He also reversed...
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    rebellion against the Emirate of Córdoba. Exiled king Eardwulf of Northumbria is able to return to his kingdom, with the support of Charlemagne and Pope Leo...
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  • Belarus and Ukraine (approximate date). King Eardwulf of Northumbria has his men seize Prince Ealhmund, son of the late King Alhred, and put him to death...
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  • Schleswig-Holstein) to the pagan Obotrites (allies of the Carolingian Empire). King Eardwulf of Northumbria leads an army into Mercia against his rival, Coenwulf...
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    of Trsat (Rijeka). The Vikings raid the island of Noirmoutier, and attack the monastery of Saint Philibert of Jumièges. King Eardwulf of Northumbria,...
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    is regarded as the patron saint of boundaries, and by extension, of trade and travel, as well as various aspects of farming. His feast day is celebrated...
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  • Billington: King Eardwulf of Northumbria defeats the nobleman Wada in battle, who has killed former King Æthelred I (see 796). King Sigeric I of Essex abdicates...
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    Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira...
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    English rulers who were later restored: Eadbehrt of Kent, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, and Eardwulf of Northumbria. Nelson writes that Charlemagne treated the...
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    II, according to one tradition, reigned as king of Northumbria following the deposition of Eardwulf in 806. This information appears only in the anonymous...
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    the poor and orphaned. He was killed about 800, for which King Eardwulf of Northumbria was held responsible. Whatever the exact circumstances, his death...
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    Billington: King Eardwulf of Northumbria defeats the nobleman Wada in battle, who has killed former King Æthelred I (see 796). King Sigeric I of Essex abdicates...
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    subsequently remarried for political reasons in 660, this time to Ecgfrith of Northumbria, who was fourteen or fifteen at the time. Shortly after his accession...
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    are Friduricus, donor of the Mercian royal monastery built in Breedon during the seventh century, King Eardwulf of Northumbria, and relatively unknown...
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  • abandoned by his people and went into exile Eardwulf of Northumbria, 796 to 806, deposed 806 Æthelred II of Northumbria, c. 854-c. 858 Amlaíb Cuarán, twice,...
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    Eardwulf of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by his rival Ælfwald II, who takes the throne. Eardwulf flees to the Frankish court of Charlemagne...
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    Osberht (died 21 March 867) was king of Northumbria in the middle of the 9th century. Sources on Northumbrian history in this period are limited. Osberht's...
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  • Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's in Canterbury. He was a noted teacher and commentator of the Bible. Adrian was born between...
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    Edward the Martyr (category Year of birth uncertain)
    of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex, but in that year the West Saxons achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Edington...
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    Alcuin to the people of Kent in 797 laments that "scarcely anyone is found now of the old stock of kings". Eardwulf of Northumbria had, like Coenwulf,...
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    to be anointed as well, by the archbishop of Toledo. In England, the Anglo-Saxon king Eardwulf of Northumbria was "consecrated and enthroned" in 796, and...
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  • Eanbald (died 796) (category Year of birth unknown)
    new king, Eardwulf of Northumbria. Eanbald's time as archbishop was a time of political instability in the Northumbrian kingdom. The synod of 786 condemned...
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    first archbishop. Later, in 808, Pope Leo III helped restore King Eardwulf of Northumbria to his throne; and in 859, Pope Leo IV confirmed and anointed Alfred...
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    Neot (died 31 July 877) was an English monk. Born in the first half of the ninth century, he lived as a monk at Glastonbury Abbey. He preferred to perform...
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