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- Osred is an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from ós "god" and ræd "counsel", that may refer to: Osred I of Northumbria (c. 697 – 716), king of Northumbria...
- Osred II was King of Northumbria from 789 to 790. He was the son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht. He succeeded Ælfwald, son of his mother's...
- known wife was Cuthburh, but it is not known for certain whether Osred was her son. Osred did not directly succeed his father as Eadwulf I seized the throne...
- Northumbria tempts the exiled king Osred II back to his kingdom from the Isle of Man. His supporters desert him, and Osred II is killed by Æthelred's men...
- perhaps a half-brother, of Osred. Alternatively, he may have been a son of King Eahlfrith of Deira, and thus a first cousin of Osred. Bede reports little of...
- 704 until February or March of 705, when Aldfrith's son Osred was restored to the throne. Osred was a child when his father died, and it is ****umed that...
- in exile during the reign of Ælfwald and his successor Osred II. However, in 788 or 789, Osred was deposed, forcibly tonsured and exiled and Æthelred...
- born to Aldfrith, but whether Cuthburh was their mother is unrecorded. Osred, born around 696 or 697, succeeded to the throne after a civil war following...
- John of Fordun claims that he murdered his predecessor Osred. Bede merely mentions that Osred was slain; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle places it somewhere...
- recognise the kings of Northumbria as "Kings of the Saxons" until the death of Osred I of Northumbria in 716. Ælle of Sus**** (488–c. 514) Ceawlin of Wes**** (560–592...