Aelfwine (c. 661 - 679) was a King of Deira (670 - 679). He was a son of Oswiu of Northumbria and a brother of Ecgfrith of Northumbria. Events Caliph Ali Ben Abu Talib is assassinated. ... Events Adamnan becomes abbot of the monastery on Iona. ... Northumbria, an kingdom of Angles in northern England, was initially divided into two kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira. ... Deira (from Brythonic Deifr, meaning waters) was a kingdom in England during the 6th century AD. It later merged with the kingdom of Bernicia (Brythonic, Brynaich) to the north to form the kingdom of Northumbria. ... Events On the death of his brother Clotaire, Childeric II becomes king of all of the Frankish kingdoms -- Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy. ... Events Adamnan becomes abbot of the monastery on Iona. ... Oswiu (c. ... Ecgfrith (645–May 20, 685) was the King of Northumbria from 670 until his death. ...

After the succession of Ecgfrith as king of Northumbria in 670, he made Aelfwine king of the sub-kingdom of Deira. Aelfwine was still a boy at the time, and the title may have been intended to designate him as the heir of the childless Ecgfrith. He was, however, killed in battle against the Mercians at the river Trent in 679. This provoked the outrage of the Northumbrians, but further conflict was averted by the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore, who persuaded Aethelred of Mercia to pay a weregild in compensation for Aelfwine's death. Section from Shepherds map of the British Isles about 802 AD showing the kingdom of Northumbria Northumbria is primarily the name of an Anglian kingdom which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the kingdom. ... Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. ... The River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. ... Arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... Theodore (602–September 19, 690) was the eighth archbishop of Canterbury. ... For the later earl, see Earl Aethelred of Mercia. ... Weregild (Alternative spellings: wergild, wergeld, weregeld, etc. ...