Rulers of Bamburgh
From the destruction of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria by the Vikings in 867 to the early eleventh century, Bamburgh and the surrounding region (the former Bernicia), the northern part of Northumbria, was ruled for a short period by shadowy kings, then by a series of ealdormen (Latin duces, Old English eorl, modern English earl) and high-reeves (from Old English heah-gerefa). Several of these men ruled all Northumbria.
- King Egbert I (867–872)[1]
- King Ricsige (872/3–876) [1]
- King Egbert II (876–878 or after 883?)[1]
- Earl Eadwulf of Bamburgh (fl. c. 890 – 913), called 'king of the north Saxons' by the Annals of Ulster[2]
- Ealdred I of Bamburgh 913 – c. 933[3][4]
- Æthelstan of England (c. 933 – 939), overlord of all Northumbria
- Adulf mcEtulfe (died 934), possibly 'Æthelwulf son of Eadwulf', named 'King of the Northern Saxons' by the Annals of Clonmacnoise.[5]
- Edmund I of England (939), possibly overlord of Northumbria
- Olaf Guthfrithson (939–941), possibly ruled all of Northumbria
- Amlaíb Cuarán (941–944), possibly ruled all of Northumbria
- Edmund I of England (944–946), possibly overlord of Northumbria
- Osulf I of Bamburgh (floruit 946–963)
- Eadwulf I 'Evil-Child' of Bamburgh (floruit 963–973)
- Waltheof of Bamburgh[6] (floruit 994)
- Uhtred 'the Bold' of Northumbria (1006–16), ruled all Northumbria
- Eadwulf II 'Cudel' of Bamburgh (died 1019)
- Ealdred II of Bamburgh (died 1038)
- Eadwulf III of Bamburgh (died 1041)
- Bernicia united to the rest of Northumbria during this period (1041–65).
- Osulf II of Bamburgh (1065–67)
- Bernicia united to the rest of Northumbria after 1067.
Notes
- ^ a b c Rollason, David (2003). Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. p. 249. ISBN 0 521 81335 2.
- ^ Rollason, pp. 213, 249
- ^ Rollason, p. 213
- ^ Hudson, Benjamin T. (2004). "Ealdred (d. 933?), leader of the Northumbrians". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39225. Retrieved 25 August 2013.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ McGuigan, Neil (2015). "Ælla and the descendants of Ivar: politics and legend in the Viking Age". Northern History. 52 (1): 20–34. doi:10.1179/0078172X14Z.00000000075. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ For Waltheof II, see Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria.