Hussa

Bernicia and its neighboring kingdoms

Hussa († 592 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia from 585 until his death .

Life

In older research, Hussa was sometimes seen as the son of King Ida of Bernicia . The exact dates of the government and the chronological order in the line of succession are not clearly secured because there are no contemporary sources. Sometimes he was classified as the successor of Æthelric and predecessor of Theodric in the period around 579-586. As far as we know today, he probably succeeded Frithuwald in 585 and ruled until 592.

An alliance of the British kings Urien of Rheged , Rhydderch Hael of Strathclyde , Gwallog ap Llaennog of Elmet and Morcant of Gododdin (or Bryneich ) invaded Bernicia. Fights with varying outcomes followed. According to tradition, Hussa was finally besieged by enemy forces for three days on the island of Medgawdd ( Lindisfarne ) in vain . Disagreement among the British kings, which culminated in the assassination of Urien by an ally, led to the siege being lifted and the campaign ended. According to some historians, it was King Theodric (572-579) or possibly Æthelfrith (592-616) who was besieged on Lindisfarne.

After Hussa's death, Æthelfrith , who may have been his brother, succeeded Bernicias on the throne. Hussa's son Hering fought against Æthelfrith around 603.

swell

Nennius : Historia Brittonum

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b William Hunt : Ida . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 28: Howard - Inglethorpe. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1891, pp. 411 - 412 (English ,, (partly outdated state of research)).

^ ^A ^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 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 502-505.

↑ Historia Brittonum , 63

^ Alfred P. Smyth: Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000 , Edinburgh University Press, 1984, ISBN 07486-0100-7 . P. 21. John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 26.

↑ Stephen S. Evans: The Lords of Battle: Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark-Age Britain , Boydell & Brewer, 1998, ISBN 978-0851156620 , p. 20.

↑ James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780748612321 . P. 127.

^ Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 5 , de Gruyter, 1984, ISBN 978-3-11-009635-4 , p. 307.

predecessor	Office	successor
Frithuwald	King of Bernicia 585-592	Æthelfrith

personal data
SURNAME	Hussa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Bernicia
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century
DATE OF DEATH	592

[dnb-1] A ^b William Hunt : Ida . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 28: Howard - Inglethorpe. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1891, pp. 411 - 412 (English ,, (partly outdated state of research)).

[enc502-2] A ^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 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 502-505.

[3] Historia Brittonum , 63

[4] Alfred P. Smyth: Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000 , Edinburgh University Press, 1984, ISBN 07486-0100-7 . P. 21. John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 26.

[5] Stephen S. Evans: The Lords of Battle: Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark-Age Britain , Boydell & Brewer, 1998, ISBN 978-0851156620 , p. 20.

[6] James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780748612321 . P. 127.

[rga5-307-7] Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 5 , de Gruyter, 1984, ISBN 978-3-11-009635-4 , p. 307.