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Date c. 500 - c. 900
Location Essex • Kent • Northumbria • Wessex • England
Participants Anglo-Saxon • Danish

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Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira
Oswiu
king of Northumbria
Ceawlin
king of Wessex
Edwin
king of Northumbria
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
Vortigern
king of the Britons
Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
Cadwallon
Welsh king of Gwynedd