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Ecgfrith (/ ˈ ɛ dʒ f r ɪ ð /; Old English: Ecgfrið [ˈedʒfrið]; c. 645 – 20 May 685) was the King of Northumbria from 670 until his death on 20 May 685. He ruled over Northumbria when it was at the height of its power, but his reign ended with a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Nechtansmere against the Picts of Fortriu in which he lost his life.
Ecgfrith was king of Mercia from 29 July to December 796. He was the son of Offa, one of the most powerful kings of Mercia, and Cynethryth, his wife. [1] In 787, Ecgfrith was consecrated king, the first known consecration of an English king, probably arranged by Offa in imitation of the consecration of Charlemagne's sons by the pope in 781.
The King of Kings is an upcoming American animated Christian film written and directed by Seong-ho Jang, loosely inspired by the short story The Life of Our Lord. It features the voices of Kenneth Branagh , Uma Thurman , Mark Hamill , Pierce Brosnan , Roman Griffin Davis , Forest Whitaker , Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac .
"[T]he very next year [685AD], that same king [Egfrid], rashly leading his army to ravage the province of the Picts, much against the advice of his friends, and particularly of Cuthbert, of blessed memory, who had been lately ordained his bishop, the enemy made show as if they fled, and the king was drawn into the straits of inaccessible mountains, and slain with the greatest part of his ...
In 655, Oswiu defeated and killed Penda at the Battle of the Winwaed. [4] Oswiu installed Peada, a son of Penda, as king of southern Mercia and ruled the northern half himself; after Peada was murdered in 656 Oswiu took direct control of all of Mercia. A coup in 658 threw off Northumbrian overlordship and established Wulfhere as king. [8]
Egfrid of Northumbria, King of Northumbria from 670 until his death; Egfrid (1810 ship), launched at Shields and condemned at Saint Helena in 1821
Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a seasoned Saxon warrior who was raised by the Danes and successfully reclaimed his birthright as the Lord of Bebbanburg.A veteran of countless battles, he once swore oaths to serve Kings Alfred and Edward and is viewed by many as the unofficial king of England's last independent kingdom, Northumbria.
The main Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms in the 7th century. Æthelfrith (died c. 616) was King of Bernicia from c. 593 until his death around 616 AD at the Battle of the River Idle.He became the first Bernician king to also rule the neighboring land of Deira, giving him an important place in the development and the unification of the later kingdom of Northumbria.