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Also Known As Oswy
Born 612
Died February 15, 670 (aged 58)
Title / Office king (655-670), Northumbria
Role In Synod of Whitby • Heptarchy
Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira
Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
Edwin
king of Northumbria
Tostig, earl of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon earl
Saint Hilda of Whitby
English abbess
Ceawlin
king of Wessex
Edbert
king of Northumbria
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Aella of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon king
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
Ecgfrith
Anglo-Saxon king
Aldfrith
king of Northumbria
Saint Wilfrid
English saint
Saint Cuthbert
bishop of Lindisfarne
Saint Colman of Lindisfarne
Irish saint
Erik I
king of Norway and Northumberland
Saint Paulinus
English bishop
Vortigern
king of the Britons
Waltheof
earl of Northumbria

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