Ecgberht II (Northumbria)

England around 878

Ecgberht II. (Also Egbert, Ecgberct, Ecgbriht, Ecgbryht ; † around 878 or 888) had been king in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria since 876 .

Life

After the fall of the puppet king Ecgberhts I of the Danish Vikings , Ricsige had taken control of the country in 872. As early as 874 (or 875) Halfdan Ragnarsson returned with the Great Pagan Army and recaptured the southern part of the country.

After Ricsige died in 876, Ecgberht II took control of the northern part of the country, which should have been roughly equivalent to Bernicia . There is no evidence that he was dependent on the Danes for his rule. Ecgberht's death is mostly put around the year 878, when Northumbria was incorporated into the Kingdom of Jórvík , but Ecgberht may have ruled the north of the country until 888.

swell

Symeon of Durham : De Gestis Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings)

literature

DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings . Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 .
Nicholas J. Higham: The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100 . Sutton Publ., Stroud 1993, ISBN 0-86299-730-5 .

Web links

Ecgberht in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c D. P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings . Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , pp. 174-176.
^ Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 876
↑ z. B. 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 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 502-505 and John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain . Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 27.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rickety	King of Northumbria 876–878 / 888	End of the kingdom

personal data
SURNAME	Ecgberht II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Egbert; Ecgberct; Ecgbriht; Ecgbryht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Northumbria
DATE OF BIRTH	9th century
DATE OF DEATH	at 878

[kirby174-1] D. P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings . Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , pp. 174-176.

[2] Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 876

[3] z. B. 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 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 502-505 and John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain . Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 27.