Ruler · 695 – 765

Ceolwulf of Northumbria

Lived 695 – 765. King of Northumbria of Kingdom of Northumbria, 729 – 737.

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Lived: 695 – 765; 70 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Northumbria
Left it: abdicated; the ruler's own article

King of Northumbria

Kingdom of Northumbria · the 9th of 40 dated reigns · 655 – 954

5 before

Osred I of Northumbria705 – 716

Coenred of Northumbria716 – 718

Osric of Northumbria718 – 729

Ceolwulf of Northumbria729 – 737

Eadberht737 – 758

Oswulf of Northumbria758 – 759

Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria759 – 765

28 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 729 – 737 · 8 years · came to it aged 34

Left it: abdicatedread from the ruler's own article

Ceolwulf ultimately abdicated and entered the monastery at Lindisfarne.

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