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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Saxons. Cynegils, by the persuasion of Oswald, King of Northumbria, who afterwards espoused his daughter Kineburga, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… is the imprisonment here of Robert the governor or Earl of Northumbria in 1095. 6 Of Henry I it is stated that he held …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… and about 1095 a prisoner of importance, the Earl of Northumbria, was confined there. 5 In 1100 William Fitz …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to have been the favourite residence of Oswald, King of Northumbria, who was slain in August 642 at a place which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeavering was the residence of some of the Saxon kings of Northumbria, particularly of Edwin, after his conversion; and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… present name is most probably contracted. Edwin, King of Northumbria, made this place the metropolis of his kingdom, … was constituted an archiepiscopal see by Edwin, King of Northumbria, who, on his conversion to Christianity, erected … from their situation north of the Humber, the name of Northumbria. In the beginning of the 9th century, the …