Northumbria: The area in Briton where Harrowfield is located.
Recent research has suggested Dunachton as a potential location for the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 in which the Picts permanently secured independence from the Northumbrians.
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Recent research has pointed to the possibility that Dunachton may have been the correct site of the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685, when Bridei mac Bille, king of the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu defeated Ecgfrith of Northumbria, securing Pictish independence from Northumbria.
Northumbria, medieval kingdom in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland
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Saint Adalbert of Egmond (also called Adelbert of Egmond) (died in the first half of the 8th century in Egmond) was a Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon missionary.
On the eve of a battle between an army of the Picts and invading Angles from Northumbria in 832AD, Saint Andrew, who was crucified on a diagonal cross, came to the Pictish King Óengus II in a vision promising victory.
One of his best known donations was the ninth-century ivory Franks Casket from Northumbria, with its runic inscriptions.
A council was convened by King Aldfrith of Northumbria at Austerfield in 702,which was then on the boundary between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, attended by Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury to decide on whether Saint Wilfrid should become Archbishop of York.
Ælfflæd of Mercia, daughter of Offa, wife of King Æthelred I of Northumbria
Lakeland author W. G. Collingwood 1917 book The Likeness of King Elfwald: A Study of Iona and Northumbria imagined the life of Ælfwald.
Sources for this period in Kentish history include The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written in 731 by Bede, a Northumbrian monk.
Æthelred I of Northumbria, King of Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 788 or 789 until his murder in 796
Following the marriage on 625AD which for the first time unified the whole of England, the court of Edwin descended upon Bleasby, the Trent considered to be equidistant from Kent and Northumbria, and were all baptised in the shallow waters there by the Roman priest, Paulinus, who later became the first Archbishop of York.
Some researchers believe that these texts refer to Bishop Ædiluald/Æthelwold (721-740 CE) of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, while others have suggested that the name refers to Bishop Ædeluald (818-830 CE) of Lichfield in Mercia.
Northumbria was then split back into its separate predecessor kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, and Cadwallon defeated and killed their new kings, Eanfrith of Bernicia and Osric of Deira, as well.
Edwin would eventually ally himself with Rædwald of East Anglia in 616, defeating and killing Æthelfrith and becoming one of Northumbria's most successful kings.
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What is known from history is that in 588 King Ælla of Deira died, and Æthelfrith of Bernicia took the opportunity to invade and conquer Deira, driving Ælla 's 3-year old infant son, the future Edwin of Northumbria, into exile.
Coifi or Cofi was the priest of the temple at Goodmanham in Northumbria in 627.
Its nearly 30,000 lines of eight-syllable couplets are linguistically important as a solid record of the Northumbrian English dialect of the era, and it is therefore the most-often quoted single work in the Oxford English Dictionary.
In August 2007, Hipgrave announced his engagement to television and radio presenter Lynsey Horn marrying her on 8 November 2008 at Langley Castle, Northumbria.
De primo Saxonum adventu, an 11th- or 12th-century compilation from earlier sources, notes that after the death of Osulf, Northumbria was divided into two parts: Eadulf Evil-child receiving the lands between the Myreford (arguably the Firth of Forth) and the River Tees and Oslac receiving the lands between the Humber Estuary and the Tees.
He was the last of the ancient Bernician line of earls to rule before his son Osulf usurped the Northumbrian earldom in 1067.
He may have been ruler of Northumbria following Eowils and Halfdan who were killed at Tettenhall circa 910.
Later that year Egbert received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore.
The dramatic overthrow of this temple in 627 AD by the high priest Coifi upon the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria is related by St Bede in his History of the English Church and People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum).
After the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, the area now known as England became divided into seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex .
James the Deacon, Italian deacon who accompanied Paulinus of York on his mission to Northumbria
In April 2008, the nearby base's remaining tornado F3 squadron (25 Sqn) was disbanded, the base is now being redeveloped as a communications station, two flying squadrons remain at the base, No. 100 Squadron RAF and the Northumbria University Air Squadron.
Interlaced bird patterns on the cross-carpet page on page 216 of the book strikingly resemble the ornament on a cross-shaft of Aberlady, Lothian, a Northumbrian site of the mid 8th century: the author/artist of the book and the sculptor of the cross-shaft ornament may have had similar source for their designs.
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The script forms strong links between the Lichfield manuscript and Northumbrian, Iona, and Irish manuscripts.
Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany (1145–1201), daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumbria and Ada de Warenne; wife firstly of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany and secondly of Humphrey de Bohun
During this period of expansion, the Mercian province of Lindsey was lost to Northumbria in 661, but its recapture by Æthelred of Mercia, following the Battle of the Trent in 679, secured Mercia’s position as the dominant Anglo-Saxon power for over a century.
Born in 1959 and brought up in Haworth, near Keighey, Yorkshire, England, Manning studied Graphic Design at The University of Northumbria and then Illustration at The Royal College of Art where his tutors included John Norris Wood, Quentin Blake and Sheila Robinson.
However, it was left to another of Cnut's earls, Siward, to protect his earldom of Northumbria by consolidating English power in Scotland; at his death in 1055 he, not the king, was overlord of all the territory that the Kingdom of Strathclyde had annexed early the previous century.
The Ormside Bowl is an Anglo-Saxon double-bowl in gilded silver and bronze, with glass, perhaps Northumbrian, dating from the mid-8th century which was found in 1823, possibly buried next to a Viking warrior in Great Ormside, Cumbria, though the circumstances of the find were not well recorded.
Osric of Northumbria, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in the 720s
Osric was king of Northumbria from the death of Coenred in 718 until his death on 9 May 729.
Cynddylan apparently joined forces with king Penda of Mercia to protect his realm, and together they fought against the increasingly powerful Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria at the Battle of Maes Cogwy (Oswestry) in 642.
But the sceat fabric survived in East Anglia under Beonna and until the mid 9th century in Northumbria, while the new-style coinages were not struck not only by Offa, but also by the kings of East Anglia, Kent, and Wessex, by two archbishops of Canterbury, and even in the name of Offa's queen, Cynethryth.
Artistically, it has points of contact with sculpture in Iona and Northumbria, but its closest affiliation is with the great cross-slabs on other parts of the Tarbat peninsula, namely those at Hilton of Cadboll, Shandwick and Nigg, which one may perhaps assume were created by a school of masons centred on Tarbat.
Northumbria had established a bishopric among the Southern Picts at Abercorn in 681, under Bishop Trumwine.
After the Kingdom of Northumbria was remerged (by now an Earldom of England under the House of Wessex), the title King of Jórvík became redundant and was succeeded by the title Earl of York, created in 960.
Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.
Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria (also portrayed as a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth)
Earl Cospatric apparently fled to Scotland and in the beginning of 1069 King William appointed the Picard Robert de Comines as the new earl of Northumbria.
In the 7th century Northumbria was ruled by the pagan leader Oswald who, upon converting to Christianity, established, with the help of St Aidan, a monastery at Lindisfarne, the Holy Island.
He subsequently met Paul Tucker who was also studying at Newcastle Northumbria University and was working at the same bar as Tunde – their partnership began and they formed Lighthouse Family.
Around 700 AD St. Willibrord (657 – 739 AD) a Benedictine Monk from Northumbria (Great Britain) brought Christianity to Waxweiler (see also Echternach Dancing Procession) and at that time the Church was founded in the town.
From the Romans to the early English settlement to the Norman Conquest, agriculture, the Anglo-Scottish wars, the Reformation, the dawn of railway transportation, electoral reform, twentieth century war to suburbia, all of these great historical themes have influenced life in Whickham.