Ruler · 750 – 765

Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria

Lived 750 – 765. King of Northumbria of Kingdom of Northumbria, 759 – 765.

Wikidata's English label: Æthelwald Moll.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 750 – 765; 15 years
In office: 6 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Northumbria
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

King of Northumbria

Kingdom of Northumbria · the 12th of 40 dated reigns · 655 – 954

8 before

Ceolwulf of Northumbria729 – 737

Eadberht737 – 758

Oswulf of Northumbria758 – 759

Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria759 – 765

Alhred765 – 774

Æthelred I of Northumbria774 – 779

Ælfwald I of Northumbria779 – 788

25 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied 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 759 – 765 · 6 years · came to it aged 9

Came to it: seized power
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

He seized power after the murder of Oswulf son of Eadberht; his ancestry and connection to the royal family of Northumbria is unknown. Æthelwald faced at least one rebellion, led by Oswine, perhaps a brother of Oswulf.

Æthelwald was deposed on 30 October 765, apparently by a council of noblemen and prelates held at Pincanheale, an important site used for two later Northumbrian church councils.

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