Cenred (Northumbria)
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 123.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Osred I. |
King of Northumbria 716-718 |
Osric |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cenred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coenred; Cœnred; Cænred; Coinred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Northumbria |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century |
DATE OF DEATH | 718 |