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Deira

kingdom in the north of early Anglo-Saxon Britain

25 dated entries naming Deira, drawn from 21 separate years between 560 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

  • 560Ælla becomes king of Deira (this according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).source
  • 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 (died 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

  • 604Æthelfrith of Northumbria invades Deira and kills its king, Æthelric. Prince Edwin, son of the late king Ælla of Deira (possibly a nephew of Æthelric), flees to the court of King Iago of Gwynedd (northwest Wales).source
  • 604Æthelric, king of Deira (approximate date)source
  • 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 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.source
  • 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
  • 670February 15 – King Oswiu of Northumbria dies during a pilgrimage to Rome in the company of bishop Wilfrid. He is succeeded by his son Ecgfrith, while his youngest son Ælfwine becomes king of Deira. Oswiu is buried at Whitby Abbey, alongside Edwin of Northumbria.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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