Ethelwald

Family: Northumberland · Role: nephew of Oswy · First appears: Book XII 7–11

Life events

• Alfrid and Ethelwald rebelled against Oswy and fled to Penda for military aid.(Book XII 7–11)
  • With: Alfrid Penda
  • “Upon this Alfrid, his brother, and Ethelwald, his brother's son, began an insurrection; but, not being able to hold out against him, they fled to Penda, king of the Mercians”

Book XII 7–11

• elder kin: Oswy (Ethelwald is identified as Oswy's nephew.) “Upon this Alfrid, his brother, and Ethelwald, his brother's son, began an insurrection”
• elder kin: Ethelfrid “since Ethelfrid, king of Northumberland, and Ethelwald, his brother's son, had been by him harassed with a war”
• with Penda (Ethelwald sought Penda's military assistance.) “they fled to Penda, king of the Mercians, desiring him to assemble his army and pass the Humber with them”

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