Osric

Family: Northumbrians · Role: king · First appears: Book III · Chap. I

Life events

c. 633 · Osric inherited the kingdom of Deiri after Edwin's death.(Book III · Chap. I · 📍 Deiri)
- “the kingdom of the Deiri, to which province his family belonged, and where he first began to reign, passed to Osric”
c. 633 · Osric and Eanfrid renounced Christianity and returned to idolatry.(Book III · Chap. I)
- With: Eanfrid
- “Both those kings, as soon as they obtained the government of their earthly kingdoms, abjured and betrayed the mysteries of the heavenly kingdom”
c. 633 · Caedwalla killed Osric and destroyed his army.(Book III · Chap. I)
- With: Caedwalla
- “he put Osric to death; for, being rashly besieged by him in the municipal town, he sallied out on a sudden with all his forces, took him by surprise, and destroyed him and all his army”
729 · Osric died after eleven years and appointed Ceolwulf his successor.(Book V · Chap. XXIII)
- With: Ceolwulf
- “Osric, king of the Northumbrians, departed this life, after he had reigned eleven years, and appointed Ceolwulf, brother to Coenred, who had reigned before him, his successor”

parent: Aelfric (Aelfric is Osric's father.) “Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric”
mentor: Paulinus (Paulinus preached the Christian faith to Osric.) “Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric, who, through the preaching of Paulinus, had also received the mysteries of the faith.”
enemies with Caedwalla (Caedwalla killed Osric in war.) “But soon after, the king of the Britons, Caedwalla, the unrighteous instrument of rightful vengeance, slew them both. First, in the following summer, he put Osric to death”
cousins with Edwin “Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric”

child: Oswin “called Oswin, of the race of King Edwin, and son to Osric of whom we have spoken above”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.