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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… county of Argyll. In the 8th century, the Saxon kings of Northumbria obtained possession of this part of the county; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… royal burgh, and the residence of several of the kings of Northumbria. It sent two members to parliament in the 23rd of … the sixth century, by Ida, the first Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria. In 642 it was besieged by Penda, King of Mercia, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township. This place was the seat of Edwin, King of Northumbria, and had its name from a castle of great …
A History of the County of York
… tradition seems to have descended upon the court of Northumbria. King Edwin (616–32) had standards carried before … capital. In the summer of 632 Edwin fell at Hatfield. Northumbria was ravaged by the British King Cadwallon and his … its long history, was also a time of political anarchy in Northumbria. 33 Our knowledge of events at York during much …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… c.635 in the presence of his overlord King Oswald of Northumbria, and which subsequently became the area's chief …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… century, it was subdued, and annexed to the kingdom of Northumbria, of which it continued to form part till the year …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… scene of a battle fought in the time of Eardulph, King of Northumbria. It was given to the convent of Durham by William … one of the murderers of Ethelred, and Ardulph, King of Northumbria, in the year 798, when the former was defeated, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… we find that Carlisle was rebuilt by Egfrid, King of Northumbria, in whose reign it rose into importance. About …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Wales, and who was killed while fighting against them in Northumbria, in the year 676, was the first of those princes … carried on a long and sanguinary war against the Saxons of Northumbria, and, on his return into Wales, bestowed great …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was given to St. Cuthbert, in 677, by Egfrid, King of Northumbria, with all the Britons inhabiting it. In 782, …