Beornhæth

England at the time of Beornhæth

Beornhæth (also Beornheth ) was around 672 a subregulus (sub-king) in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria .

Life

Beornhæth was the first of his family to be mentioned by chroniclers . He was after King Ecgfrith (664-685) the highest-ranking Northumbrian nobleman of his time and temporarily acted as royal deputy. Possibly he was related to the royal family. According to another opinion, he represented the royal dynasty of the formerly independent Kingdom of Niuduera (today about the Unitary Authority Fife in Scotland). At the beginning of the 670s, the Northumbrian-dependent Picts rebelled . Around 671/672 Ecgfrith and his subregulus Beornhæth, who was considered brave, triumphed over them and drove their king Drest out.

Beornhæth is in the Liber Vitae of Durham called. His son Berhtred, who held the office of dux regius (about "royal general"), died in 698 in the battle against the Picts.

swell

Eddius Stephanus: Vita Wilfridi

literature

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)
James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795. (New Edinburgh history of Scotland Vol 1) . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 .
DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings . Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 .

Web links

Beornhæth 1 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , pp. 92-94.
^ ^A ^b James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795. (New Edinburgh history of Scotland Vol 1) . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 , pp. 200-201.
^ Eddius Stephanus: Vita Wilfridi 19
^ John Thomas Koch: Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0 , p. 611.

predecessor	Office	successor
?	Sub-king in Northumbria around 672	Berhtred

personal data
SURNAME	Beornhæth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beornheth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Under King in Northumbria
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century
DATE OF DEATH	7th century

[babs92-1] A ^b ^c Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , pp. 92-94.

[jim200-2] A ^b James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795. (New Edinburgh history of Scotland Vol 1) . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 , pp. 200-201.

[3] Eddius Stephanus: Vita Wilfridi 19

[4] John Thomas Koch: Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0 , p. 611.