Ruler · 701 – 759

Oswulf of Northumbria

Lived 701 – 759. King of Northumbria of Kingdom of Northumbria, 758 – 759.

Wikidata's English label: Oswulf.

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

Lived: 701 – 759; 58 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Northumbria
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

King of Northumbria

Kingdom of Northumbria · the 11th of 40 dated reigns · 655 – 954

7 before

Osric of Northumbria718 – 729

Ceolwulf of Northumbria729 – 737

Eadberht737 – 758

Oswulf of Northumbria758 – 759

Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria759 – 765

Alhred765 – 774

Æthelred I of Northumbria774 – 779

26 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 758 – 759 · 1 year

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

He succeeded his father Eadberht, who had abdicated and joined the monastery at York.

He was murdered within a year of coming to power, by members of his household, by his servants or bodyguards, at Market Weighton, on 24 July 759.

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