Eanred was king of Northumbria from c.810 to c.840. Northumbria, an kingdom of Angles in northern England, was initially divided into two kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira. ... Events October 1 - A man with a sword makes an attempt on emperor Nicephorus Is life. ... Events After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothair succeding as Emperor. ...

Very little is known for certain about Eanred. The only reference made by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to the Northumbrians in this period is the statement that in 829 Egbert of Wessex: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of (mainly) secondary source documents narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons and their settlement in Britain. ... Events Egbert of Wessex conquers Mercia and is recognized as Bretwalda. ... Egbert (also Ecgberht or Ecgbert) (c. ...

led an army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, where they met him, and offered terms of obedience and subjection, on the acceptance of which they returned home.

thereby establishing Egbert's hegemony over the entirety of Anglo-Saxon Britain. However, Roger of Wendover states that Eanred reigned from 810 until 840, whilst the twelfth century History of the Church of Durham records a reign of 33 years, and, given the turbulence of Northumbrian history at this time, a reign of this length suggests a figure of some significance. Dore (grid reference SK311812) is a village in South Yorkshire. ... Roger of Wendover (d. ...

Eanred was the son of King Eardwulf, who was deposed by an otherwise unknown Ælfwald in either 806 or 808. According the History of the Church of Durham, Ælfwald ruled for two years before Eanred succeeded. However, Frankish sources claim that, after being expelled from England, Eardwulf visited Charlemagne and then the pope, and that their envoys then escorted him back to Northumbria. Therefore, the precise nature of the removal of Ælfwald and the succession of Eanred are unclear. All sources agree that Eanred was eventually succeeded by his son, Æthelred. Events April 12 - Nicephorus elected patriarch of Constantinople, succeeding Tarasius. ... Events The Abbasid capital is moved north from Baghdad to Samarra. ... Jump to: navigation, search Charlemagne is also the name of a column in The Economist on European affairs. ... Leo III (died June 12, 816) was Pope from 795 to 816. ...