Alchfrith or Ealhfrith was a son of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Rieinmelth of Rheged. Oswiu (612–February 15, 670), also written as Oswio, Oswy, and Osuiu was an Anglo-Saxon Bretwalda. ... Entrance to the Rheged Discovery Centre Rheged was a Brythonic nation of Sub-Roman Britain, where the natives spoke Cumbric. ...

In around 655 Eahlfrith was appointed by his father as sub-king of Deira, the southern part of the Northumbrian kingdom. He replaced his cousin Æthelwold, who had supported Oswiu's enemy Penda of Mercia in the campaign leading up to the Battle of the Winwaed. Eahlfrith was married to Penda's daughter Cyneburh; Cyneburh's brother Peada was doubly Eahlfrith's brother-in-law as he later married Eahlfrith's sister Ealhflæd. Deira (perhaps corresponding with the Brythonic kingdom of Ebrauc) 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. ... Aethelwald (d. ... Stained glass window from the cloister of Worcester Cathedral showing the death of Penda of Mercia. ... The Battle of the Winwaed was fought on November 15, 655 (or perhaps in 654, according to one interpretation of the chronology), between King Penda of Mercia and Oswiu of Bernicia, ending in the Mercians defeat and Pendas death. ... Peada (died 656), a son of Penda, was briefly King of southern Mercia after his fathers death in November 655[1] until his own death in the spring of the next year. ...

At the Synod of Whitby in 664, Eahlfrith was the chief supporter of Wilfrid. Bede, in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Book III, chapter 14), states that Ealhfrith attacked his father. No further details are known. Bede's Lives of the Abbots states that Eahlfrith asked his father for permission to accompany Benedict Biscop on a pilgrimage to Rome, but the dating of this request is unclear. With this, Eahlfrith disappears from the record. The Synod of Whitby was an important synod which eventually led to the unification of the church in Britain. ... Wilfrid (c. ... Bede (IPA: ) (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: )), (ca. ... Folio 3v from Codex Beda Petersburgiensis (746) The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (in English: Ecclesiastical History of the English People) is a work in Latin by the Venerable Bede on the history of the Church in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman... Benedict Biscop (628?-690), also known as Biscop Baducing, English churchman, was born of a good Northumbrian family and was for a time a thegn of King Oswiu. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban...

While generally presumed to be the son of Aldfrith, a half-brother of Eahlfrith, the possibility is admitted that Osric may have been a son of Eahlfrith and Cyneburh. Aldfrith (died December 14, 704) was a King of Northumbria (685 - 704). ...

References

• Kirby, D.P., The Earliest English Kings. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. ISBN 0-04-445691-3
• Yorke, Barbara, Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England. London: Seaby, 1990. ISBN 1-85264-027-8

External links

• Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Continuation of Bede (pdf), at CCEL, translated by A.M. Sellar.
• Bede's Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow at Internet Medieval Sourcebook, translated by J.A. Giles.