This page is a collection of posts and other material on the early medieval kings of Britain.
Battles of Northern Britain 550s-793 : A chronicle of early medieval battles (dates and opponents) and a couple maps.
St. Oswald, King of Northumbria
- Matthew of Paris’ Royal Portraits
- Saints of Heavenfield
- St Oswald’s Way
- St Oswald’s Day Sermons from Durham Cathedral
- Heavenfield and Northumbrian Ethnogenesis
- King Edwin’s Sister’s Son
- Acca of Hexham: Defining St. Oswald
- Remembering Deira (Willibrord’s Calendar)
- History Meme-Tag: Oswald of Northumbria
- Folklore Friday (FF): St Oswald in the Bonedd y Sant
- Random thoughts on St Oswald at prayer
- King Oswald and the Sussex Plague
- King Oswald’s Female Fans
- King Oswald Bibliography
- Medievalist Stocking Stuffers
- Earliest Depiction of St. Oswald?
- Negotiating Conversion
- Hello Eadgyth! (follow-up post Confirming Queen Eadgyth)
- St Oswald Hagiography and Literature
- St Oswald’s English Raven
- The Bone Thief: Stealing St Oswald (VM Whitworth novel)
King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
- Bede and King Ecgfrith’s Associates
- Early Memories of Audrey of Ely (King Ecgfrith)
- Sleepy King Ecgfrith
- PW: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
- Ecgfrith’s burial
- Ecgfrith’s heir
- Iurminburgh’s warning
- Plague in a time of war
Other Northumbrian Kings
- Oswine the Anti-Hero
- Remembering Deira (Willibrord’s Calendar)
- St Hild: The Martha of Anglo-Saxon England (King Oswiu)
- PW: Queen Bebba of Bebbanburgh (King Æthelfrith’s queen)
- PW: King Eadwulf of Northumbria
- Oswiu’s Bribe to Penda and to God
- FF: Ida Great Knee and Bearnoch (dynastic founder)
- PW: King Œthelwald of Deira (son of King Oswald)
- Aldfrith, Aldhelm and Adomnan
General Medieval Kings
- Anglo-Saxon Martyr Kings
- Penda falls
- PW: Selyf ‘Battle-Serpent’
- PW: King Ecgric of East Anglia
- Fantastic Family Folklore Friday: Matrilines Matter! (Cadwaladr the Blessed)
- Going to Rome
- Folklore Friday: The Meeting at the Ford (Urien Rheged)
- PW: King Æthelhere of East Anglia
- PW: Rhun ap Urien of Rheged
- Urien, Lord of Catraeth
- Constantine and Gerontius in Britain
- The 300 (or 303) [Aedan mac Gabran, Domnall Brecc]
- A Tale of Adomnan and Fínsnechta the Generous, King of Brega
- King Offa’s tomb
Legendary or Fictional Kings
- Revenge of Grendel’s Mother (Review of Beowulf movie)
- Matthew of Paris’ Royal Portraits (King Arthur)
- King Edwin’s Sister’s Son (King Arthur and Beowulf)
- Fantastic Family Folklore Friday: Matrilines Matter! (Cadwaladr the Blessed)
- Folklore Friday: The Meeting at the Ford (Urien Rheged)
- FF: Ida Great Knee and Bearnoch
- Folklore Sunday: St. Aldhelm and the Loathly Lay (Constantine the Great)
- FF: St Mungo and Merlin (Battle of Arfderydd)
- Hengest and Horsa
- Futuristic Folklore Friday…. Once and Future Kings… Cynan and Cadwaladr
- Constantine and Gerontius in Britain
- The Red Ravagers
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