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Ælla (or Ælle or Aelle, fl. 866; died 21 March 867) was King of Northumbria, a kingdom in medieval England, during the middle of the 9th century.Sources on Northumbrian history in this period are limited, and so Ælla's ancestry is not known, and the dating of the beginning of his reign is questionable.
In 651, king Oswiu had Oswine of Deira killed and replaced by Œthelwald, but Œthelwald did not prove to be a loyal sub-king, allying with the Mercian king Penda; according to Bede, Œthelwald acted as Penda's guide during the latter's invasion of Northumbria but withdrew his forces when the Mercians met the Northumbrians at the Battle of Winwaed.
Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held "imperium", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. [3] In the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (around four hundred years after his time) Ælle is recorded as being the first bretwalda , or "Britain-ruler", though there is no evidence that this ...
Ælla's kingdom is identified by Bede as Deira - the use of Northumbria could be based on a tradition whereby the most powerful Anglian king in the region would claim that title. [2] Ælla was almost certainly a pagan - when Pope Gregory the Great encountered two pale-skinned English boys (Deirans) at a slave market in Rome he is said to have ...
Osberht was replaced as king by Ælla. While Ælla is described in most sources as a tyrant, and not a rightful king, one source states that he was Osberht's brother. [5] The Great Heathen Army marched on Northumbria in the late summer of 866, seizing York on 21 November 866. [6]
Aelle, Ælle, Aella, or Ælla may refer to: Ælle of Sussex (also Aelle or Ella), king of Sussex (r. 477–514) Ælla of Deira (or Ælle; died 588), king of Deira;
The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by King Ragnar Lodbrok. Because the king died childless, his cousin Aella takes the throne. The king's widow, however, is pregnant with Ragnar's child. To protect the infant from Aella's ambitions, she sends him off to Italy.
Æthelfrith himself appears to have been king of "Northumbria"—both Deira and Bernicia—by no later than 604. [2] An otherwise unknown sibling fathered Hereric, who in turn fathered Abbess Hilda of Whitby and Hereswith, wife to Æthelric, the brother of king Anna of East Anglia. [3] During the reign of Æthelfrith, Edwin was an exile.