Æthelric (Deira)

Deira and its neighboring kingdoms

Æthelric (also Aethelric, ÆÞelric, Ethelric ; † around 593 or around 604) was from 588 to 593 or from 599? until 604 king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Deira .

Life

The sources of Æthelric are very uncertain; contemporary information is completely missing. The 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that Æthelric succeeded Æll as king in 588 and ruled for five years. Furthermore, an Æthelric is named there as the father of Æthelfrith and the son of King Ida of Bernicia . Historians are divided on whether Ælle's successor and Æthelric of Bernicia are to be regarded as the same person. It is possible that Æthelric was a brother of Ælle and thus the son of Yffi. Other historians see Æll as his possible father.

Æthelric's predecessor Ælle died around the year 588/590. According to the Vita Oswaldi from the 12th century, Æthelric is said to have killed him. It is possible that Deira was dependent on the neighboring kingdom of Bernicia during vomthelric's reign , whose king Æthelfrith worked on an extension of his rule. Around the year 604, Æthelfrith invaded Deira and defeated Æthelric, who was believed to have died in battle. Æthelfrith drove the male members of the royal family into exile in 604. In order to further legitimize his rule over Deira, he married Acha, the daughter of the former King Ælle of Deira. Edwin , who as the son of Thrlle also had claims to the throne, fled out of the country to the Welsh King of Gwynedd . Æthelfrith then did everything in his power to turn him off.

swell

• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online in Project Gutenberg (English)

literature

• Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
• DP Kirby, Alfred Smyth, Ann Williams (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain , Routledge, 1991, ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7 .
• DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 .
• Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)
• Frank M. Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England . 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-1928-0139-2 .
• Nicholas J. Higham: The Kingdom of Northumbria. AD 350-1100 . Sutton, Stroud 1993, ISBN 0-8629-9730-5 .
• Steven Basset (Ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
• James Campbell (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons. Phaidon, London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Simon Keynes: Kings of the Northumbrians . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 502-505.
2. ^ ^{A b} David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0521813358 , p. 7.
3. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 588
4. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 593
5. ↑ Rosemary Cramp: Aella (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2011
6. ↑ ^{a b} D.P. Kirby, Alfred Smyth, Ann Williams (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain , Routledge, 1991, ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7 , p. 17.
7. ^ Charles Plummer ( transl .): Venerabilis Baedae Historiam Ecclesiasticam Gentis Anglorum , Gorgias Press, 2002, ISBN 1-59333-267-X , p. 93.
8. ^ ^{A b} Nicholas J. Higham: An English Empire: Bede, the Britons, and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings , Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0719044236 , pp. 77-80.
9. ^ NJ Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria. AD 350-1100, p. 111

predecessor	Office	successor
Æll	King of Deira 588/590 / 599-593 / 604	Æthelfrith