Ruler · 501 – 588

Ælla of Deira

Lived 501 – 588. King of Deira of Kingdom of Deira, 560 – 588.

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Lived: 501 – 588; 87 years
In office: 28 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Deira
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

King of Deira

Kingdom of Deira · the 1st of 12 dated reigns · 560 – 670

Ælla of Deira560 – 588

Æthelric of Deira588 – 616

Æthelfrith of Northumbria604 – 616

Edwin of Northumbria616 – 633

8 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 560 – 588 · 28 years

Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

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