Oswulf (Northumbria)

Oswulf (also Osulf, Osulfus, Osuulf, Osuulfus ; † July 24 or 25, 759 in Market Weighton ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from 758 to 759 .

Life

Northumbria in the time of Oswulf

Oswulf was the son of King Eadberht ; his mother is unknown. His uncle Ecgberht (732-766) was a bishop and since 735 Archbishop of York . The later King Ælfwald I (778–788) was probably a son of Oswulf. It is debatable among historians whether Osgifu, who later became the wife of King Ealchred (765–774), was his sister or daughter. He ascended the throne when his father Eadberht abdicated in his favor in 758 to retire as a monk in the monastery of York . It can be assumed that there was an agreement between his father and his brother Archbishop Ecgbert , according to which the latter should take over the advice of the new king and consolidate and secure Oswulf's rule.

But already on July 24 or 25, 759, the king was murdered by members of his household in Methel Wonghtun (Market Weighton). Who was behind the murder was not recorded, but the plot probably came from Æthelwald Moll , Oswulf's immediate successor, who may have already been involved in Eadberht's abdication.

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Wikisource: en: Ecclesiastical History of the English People / Continuation  - Sources and full texts (English)

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

literature

• John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 .
• 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 .
• David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8 .
• Nicholas J. Higham: The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100 . Sutton, 1993. ISBN 978-0-86299-730-4 .
• John Marsden: Northanhymbre Saga: The History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria , Llanerch Press, 1995, ISBN 978-1-897853-76-4 .
• EB Fryde, DE Greenway et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 .

Web links

• Oswulf 2 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Oswulf 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. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 738
3. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 172.
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 41.
6. ^ David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8 , p. 193.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eadberht	King of Northumbria 758–759	Æthelwald minor