Cenred (Northumbria)

Northumbria at the time of Cenreds

Cenred (also Coenred, Cœnred, Cænred, Coinred ; † 718 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from 716 to 718 .

Life

Cenred was the son of Cuthwine. Through his grandfather Leodwald, he traced his origins to Occa (Ocga), a son of the founder of the dynasty, Ida . His brother Ceolwulf († 764) was also King of Northumbria from 729 to 737.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was following King Osred I. (706-716) 716 in a battle, probably in the fight against the Picts . William of Malmesbury , a 12th century chronicler, however, narrated that Osred fell victim to a conspiracy, but that is probably just a hypothesis. With Osred's death, the almost uninterrupted kingship of the descendants of Æthelfrith (592–616) ended and went to a branch line with Cenred. No details have been reported about Cenred's two-year term, but too short a reign suggests a violent end. After his death in 718, Osric succeeded the throne, who was likely a younger brother of his predecessor Osred I.

swell

• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online in Project Gutenberg (English)
• Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
• Annals of Ulster , The Annals of Ulster AD 431-1201 in CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts

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)
• NJ Higham: The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100. Stroud: Sutton, 1993. ISBN 978-0-86299-730-4
• DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 .
• David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8 .

Web links

• Cenred 4 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Cenred in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of Northumbria . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 502-505.
2. ↑ ^{a b} David W. Rollason: Osred I  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} David W. Rollason: Ceolwulf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011
4. ↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 40.
5. Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 123.

predecessor	Office	successor
Osred I.	King of Northumbria 716-718	Osric