Osred II.

Osred II (also Osredus, Osræd ; * around 770; † September 14, 792 in Aynburg) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from 788 to 790 .

Life

family

Osred's parents were Ealchred (765-774) and Osgifu, who was either the daughter of Oswulf (758-759) or Eadberht (737-758). Osred thus united two of the rival lines of the royal family, the House of Ocga (on the mother's side) and the House of Eadric (on the father's side), which descended from the founder of the dynasty Ida (547–559 / 560). King Ælfwald I (778 / 779–788) was probably an uncle on his mother's side. The Holy Alcmund , the year 800 during the reign Eardwulfs was murdered (796-810?), Was reportedly a brother Osreds.

Rule, exile and death

Osred was buried in Tynemouth Priory .

Æthelred I was deposed in 778/779 and with Osred's relative Ælfwald I (778 / 779–788) the line of the Eatingas came back to the throne. Æthelred had to go into exile during the reign of his successors Ælfwald I and Osred II. King Ælfwald was murdered on September 23, 788 by the Ealdorman Sicga near Scythlecester (probably today's Chesters). His sons Ælf and Ælfwine were probably still too young as heirs to the throne, so that his neua / nepos (“nephew”, also generally for “relative”) Osred succeeded him on the throne. Osred was removed from office in 790 and initially imprisoned as a monk in York . Æthelred was enthroned again. Soon after, Osred fled into exile on the Isle of Man .

In 791 Æthelred had Ælf and Ælfwine, the sons of Ælfwald, kidnapped as rivals to the throne from York and murdered at Wonwaldremere ( Windermere ). Dissatisfaction with Æthelred's rule grew, so that Osred was recalled from his exile. When he wanted to regain the throne in 792, he was abandoned by his supporters, captured and executed on September 14th in Aynburg (not localized). His body was buried in Tynemouth Priory Church in Tynemouth .

swell

• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online in Project Gutenberg (English)
• Symeon of Durham : De Gestis Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings)
• Symeon of Durham: Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis (History of the Church of Durham)

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)
• DP Kirby, Alfred Smyth, Ann Williams (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, Routledge, London-New York 1991, ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7 .
• 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, Stroud 1993, ISBN 0-86299-730-5 .
• David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8 .

Web links

• David W. Rollason: Osred II (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011
• Osred 3 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Osred in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} David W. Rollason: Osred II  ( 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
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ see: Alex Woolf : From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070 Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5 , p. 42; DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 125
4. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 172.
5. ↑ Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 800
6. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 95.
7. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 88. see: Symeon von Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 779
8. ↑ ^{a b} Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 789.
9. ^ DP Kirby, Alfred Smyth, Ann Williams (eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, Routledge, London-New York 1991, ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7 , p. 14.
10. ↑ Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum to the years 790 and 792
11. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 790
12. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 89. see: Symeon von Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 791

predecessor	Office	successor
Ælfwald I.	King of Northumbria 788-790	Æthelred I.