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Also Known As Ethelfrith • Aethelfrith the Destroyer
Died 616?
Title / Office king (592-616), Northumbria
Role In Heptarchy
Edwin
king of Northumbria
Oswiu
king of Northumbria
Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
Tostig, earl of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon earl
Ceawlin
king of Wessex
Edbert
king of Northumbria
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Aella of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon king
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
Ecgfrith
Anglo-Saxon king
Aelle
king of Deira
Aldfrith
king of Northumbria
Saint Cuthbert
bishop of Lindisfarne
Erik I
king of Norway and Northumberland
Saint Paulinus
English bishop
Vortigern
king of the Britons
Waltheof
earl of Northumbria
Cadwallon
Welsh king of Gwynedd
Ida
king of Bernicia

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