Osfrid

Family: Angles · Role: son of Edwin · First appears: Book XII 7–11

Life events

• Cadwalla defeated Edwin's forces, killing Edwin, Osfrid, and Godbold.(Book XII 7–11 · 📍 Heathfield)
  • With: Cadwalla Edwin Godbold
  • “but was killed, and almost all the people with him, together with Osfrid, his son, and Godbold, king of the Orkneys, who had come to their assistance.”

Book XII 7–11

• parent: Edwin (Edwin is identified as Osfrid's father.) “When Edwin was informed of it, he assembled all the petty kings of the Angles, and meeting the Britons in a field called Heathfield, presently gave them battle, but was killed, and almost all the people with him, together with Osfrid, his son, and Godbold, king of the Orkneys, who had come to their assistance.”
• enemies with Cadwalla (Osfrid fought alongside Edwin against Cadwalla's Britons.) “When Edwin was informed of it, he assembled all the petty kings of the Angles, and meeting the Britons in a field called Heathfield, presently gave them battle, but was killed, and almost all the people with him, together with Osfrid, his son, and Godbold, king of the Orkneys, who had come to their assistance.”

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Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.