{"slug": "bernicia", "label": "Bernicia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernicia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623751", "qid": "Q623751", "description": "Anglo-Saxon kingdom in northern Britain", "entries": 33, "years": 26, "span": [525, 920], "span_label": ["525 CE", "920 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 12}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 8}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "deira", "label": "Deira", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "oswiu", "label": "Oswiu", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "edwin-of-northumbria", "label": "Edwin of Northumbria", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "angles-tribe", "label": "Angles (tribe)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "northern-england", "label": "Northern England", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-northumbria", "label": "Kingdom of Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "celtic-britons", "label": "Celtic Britons", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anglo-saxons", "label": "Anglo-Saxons", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "penda-of-mercia", "label": "Penda of Mercia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Bernicia (North East England) is settled by the Angles (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Britannia", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Events › By place › Britannia"}}, {"year": 547, "year_label": "547 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Ida establishes the kingdom of Bernicia. He builds Bamburgh Castle (northeast England) as a fortress that will become the seat of Anglo-Saxon kings (according to the Historia Brittonum).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364909272#Britain", "title": "547", "revid": 1364909272, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 559, "year_label": "559 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Glappa succeeds his father Ida as king of Bernicia (North East England). During his rule, Anglian settlers expand their territory in what is now southeastern Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350439939#Britain", "title": "559", "revid": 1350439939, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 559, "year_label": "559 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ida, king of Bernicia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350439939#Deaths", "title": "559", "revid": 1350439939, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 560, "year_label": "560 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354969984#Britain", "title": "560", "revid": 1354969984, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 560, "year_label": "560 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Glappa, king of Bernicia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354969984#Deaths", "title": "560", "revid": 1354969984, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 568, "year_label": "568 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Æthelric succeeds his brother Adda as king of Bernicia (modern Scotland). He rules from 568–572 (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751316#Britain", "title": "568", "revid": 1364751316, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 568, "year_label": "568 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Adda, king of Bernicia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751316#Deaths", "title": "568", "revid": 1364751316, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 570, "year_label": "570 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Gwen Ystrad: A British alliance is forged between the kingdoms of Strathclyde, Bryneich and Elmet (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800837#Europe", "title": "570", "revid": 1340800837, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 572, "year_label": "572 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Theodric succeeds his brother Æthelric as king of Bernicia (southeastern Scotland). He rules until 579.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801019#Britain", "title": "572", "revid": 1340801019, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 579, "year_label": "579 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Frithuwald succeeds his brother Theodoric as king of Bernicia (Scotland). He rules from 579–585 (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073496#Britain", "title": "579", "revid": 1267073496, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 579, "year_label": "579 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Theodric, king of Bernicia (Scotland)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073496#Deaths", "title": "579", "revid": 1267073496, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 585, "year_label": "585 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Hussa succeeds his brother Frithuwald as king of Bernicia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938601#Britain", "title": "585", "revid": 1365938601, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 585, "year_label": "585 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia (d. 633)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938601#Births", "title": "585", "revid": 1365938601, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Eanfrith, king of Bernicia (d. 634)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Births", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Æthelfrith of Northumbria succeeds Hussa as king of Bernicia (Scotland). His accession possibly involves dynastic rivalry and the exile of Hussa's relatives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Britain", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Hussa, king of Bernicia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Deaths", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 595, "year_label": "595 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Dynod Bwr of the Pennines (Northern England) dies fighting off a Bernician invasion. His kingdom Hen Ogledd (\"The Old North\") is overrun, and his family flees to Powys (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658603#Britain", "title": "595", "revid": 1367658603, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 598, "year_label": "598 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Catraeth: The Gododdin under Mynyddog Mwynfawr, Brythonic king of Hen Ogledd (\"The Old North\"), defeat the Angles of Bernicia and Deira, at the stronghold of Catraeth in Northern England (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751875#Britain", "title": "598", "revid": 1364751875, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 616, "year_label": "616 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Rædwald installs Edwin as king of Northumbria, effectively confirming him as bretwalda. He takes power in his native Deira and in Bernicia. His reign marks the domination of Northumbria as leading Anglo-Saxon state of the British Isles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367636041#Britain", "title": "616", "revid": 1367636041, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 632, "year_label": "632 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 or 633 – Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370178497#Deaths", "title": "632", "revid": 1370178497, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 633, "year_label": "633 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Osric succeeds his uncle Edwin as king of Deira. Prince Eanfrith returns from Pictland to claim his rightful crown of Bernicia (Northern England). Both revert to paganism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351044118#Britain", "title": "633", "revid": 1351044118, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Heavenfield: Oswald, possibly accompanied by a force of Scots (or Picts), defeats and kills Cadwallon with a Welsh army near Hexham (northern England). He reunites Deira with Bernicia, and becomes king of Northumbria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Britain", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Eanfrith, king of Bernicia (northern England)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Deaths", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 641, "year_label": "641 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Prince Oswiu of Bernicia conquers Gododdin (or \"The Old North\") as far north as Manau (modern Scotland), on behalf of his half-brother, King Oswald (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364764166#Britain", "title": "641", "revid": 1364764166, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 642, "year_label": "642 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Oswiu succeeds his half-brother Oswald as king of Bernicia. He strengthens his position by marrying Eanflæd, daughter of King Edwin of Northumbria, then in exile in the Kingdom of Kent. This marriage takes place between 642 and 644.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367634849#Britain", "title": "642", "revid": 1367634849, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 650, "year_label": "650 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Oswiu of Bernicia seeks Irish support against the forces of Penda. While in Ireland he has a liaison with Fín, the granddaughter of King Colmán Rímid Uí Néill (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804422#Britain", "title": "650", "revid": 1340804422, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 651, "year_label": "651 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Œthelwald succeeds his uncle Oswine as king of Deira, and allies himself with Oswiu's enemy, King Penda of Mercia. Queen Eanflæd of Bernicia donates the estate of Gilling for the foundation of a monastery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804418#Britain", "title": "651", "revid": 1340804418, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 652, "year_label": "652 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Penda of Mercia invades Bernicia, and besieges King Oswiu at Bamburgh, in North East England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635695#Britain", "title": "652", "revid": 1367635695, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 653, "year_label": "653 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Œthelwald of Deira rejects Oswiu's overlordship, and turns to Penda instead. Penda mounts another attack against Bernicia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635810#Britain", "title": "653", "revid": 1367635810, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 867, "year_label": "867 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Surviving members of the Northumbrian royal court flee into the northernmost part of the kingdom, Bernicia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655299#Britain", "title": "867", "revid": 1366655299, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 918, "year_label": "918 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Corbridge: High-Reeve Ealdred I persuades King Constantine II of Scotland to help him reclaim his position in Bernicia. They mount an invasion of his now Norse controlled lands. The Vikings under Ragnall ua Ímair (or Rægnald) defeat the Scots and their allies at Corbridge (Northern Northumbria), but take heavy casualties themselves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509557#Britain", "title": "918", "revid": 1341509557, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 920, "year_label": "920 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "High-Reeve Ealdred I, ruler of the former kingdom of Bernicia (Northumbria), and his brother Uhtred, submit to the overlordship of King Edward the Elder (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205100#Britain", "title": "920", "revid": 1349205100, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}]}