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Deira

kingdom in the north of early Anglo-Saxon Britain

20 dated entries naming Deira, drawn from 18 separate years between 581 CE and 867 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century

  • 581The Anglo-Saxons under Ælla conquer Deira (Northern England) from the Britons. He becomes the first king of Deira (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).source
  • 585Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia (d. 633)source
  • 588Æthelric succeeds his father Ælla as king of Deira in Northern England.source
  • 588Ælla, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 598Battle 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).source

7th century

  • 605King Æthelfrith annexes the neighboring kingdom of Deira (Northern England). The region between the Forth and Humber rivers will hereafter be known as Northumbria, the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.source
  • 616Rædwald 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.source
  • 625Œthelwald, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 630Alhfrith, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 632October 12 or 633 – Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Berniciasource
  • 633Osric, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 634Battle 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.source
  • 644Oswine, son of the late king Osric of Deira, manages to establish himself as king of Deira (Northern England) despite armed objections from King Oswiu of Bernicia. His succession, probably the choice of the people of Deira, splits the Kingdom of Northumbria.source
  • 651Œthelwald 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.source
  • 651August 20 – Oswine, king of Deira (England)source
  • 661Approximate date – Ælfwine, Northumbrian king of Deira (k. 679)source
  • 664Alhfrith, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 679Ælfwine, king of Deira (approximate date)source

8th century

  • 759July 24 – King Oswulf of Northumbria is murdered by members of his own household (his servants or bodyguards), at Market Weighton. The Deiran patrician, Æthelwald Moll, who probably conspired in the regicide, is crowned king of Northumbria. He may have been a descendant of the late king Oswine of Deira.source

9th century

  • 867Deira, the southernmost part of Northumbria, is conquered by the Vikings. Ivar the Boneless, one of their leaders, installs a puppet king of Northumbria, Ecgberht I.source

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