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Oswiu, also
known as Oswy or
Oswig (Old English: Ōswīg; c. 612 – 15
February 670), was King of
Bernicia from 642 and of
Northumbria from 654
until his...
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Oswine (a
relation of
Edwin murdered by
Oswiu in 651), Œthelwald (killed in
battle 655), and
Aldfrith (son of
Oswiu, who
disappeared after 664). Although...
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painstaking attention to detail, this was
astonishingly generous. King
Oswiu of
Northumbria appointed his nephew, Œthelwald, to
administer the coastal...
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converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His
accession marked the end of
Oswiu of Northumbria's
overlordship of
southern England, and
Wulfhere extended...
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After Oswine of
Deira was
killed by
Oswiu of
Bernicia in 651, Œthelwald
became king; it is
uncertain whether Oswiu (who was Œthelwald's uncle) installed...
- year 644 to 664, when
kings ruled individually over Deira. In 651, king
Oswiu had
Oswine of
Deira killed and
replaced by Œthelwald, but Œthelwald did...
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forces of
Penda of Mercia, who then
himself was
defeated by Oswald's
brother Oswiu. Oswald's
father Æthelfrith was a
successful Bernician ruler who, after...
- Gai Campi) was
fought on 15
November 655
between King
Penda of
Mercia and
Oswiu of Bernicia,
ending in the Mercians'
defeat and Penda's death. According...
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Deira but of
Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, Oswald, and
Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's
death in
battle has been seen as causing...
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Christian administrative gathering held in
Northumbria in 664,
wherein King
Oswiu ruled that his
kingdom would calculate Easter and
observe the
monastic tonsure...