Osric (Northumbria)

Northumbria at the time of Osric

Osric (also Osricus ; * around 700; † May 9, 729 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from 718 to 729 .

Osric was probably a son of Aldfrith (686-705) and his wife Cuthburga and a younger brother of Osred I (718-729). He came from the house of Æthelfrith (592–616).

When King Cenred of the House of Occa (Ocga) died in 718, Osric succeeded him to the throne. Details of Osric's reign are not known. Shortly before his death in 729, he named Ceolwulf , the brother of his predecessor Cenred from the House of Occa (Ocga), as his successor , which finally inherited the previous dynasty. Osric died a violent death on May 9, 729.

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• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online in Project Gutenberg (English)
• Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
• Æthelweard : Chronica

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

Web links

• Osric 5 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Osric in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 123.
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. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 729

predecessor	Office	successor
Cenred	King of Northumbria 718–729	Ceolwulf