State · 420 – 634
Kingdom of Bernicia
A state of 420 – 634 — 214 years in Europe. It was followed by Kingdom of Northumbria. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 11 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 214 years
- 420 – 634
- Rulers
- 11
- the king of Bernicia
- Most ground
- 10,300 km²
- in 555
- Within it
- 11
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- Kingdom of Northumbria · followed by · 653 – 954
Rulers
The line of king of Bernicia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ida of Bernicia | 547 – 559 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Glappa of Bernicia | 559 – 560 | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Adda of Bernicia | 560 – 568 | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Æthelric of Bernicia | 568 – 572 | 4 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Theodric of Bernicia | 572 – 579 | 7 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Frithuwald of Bernicia | 579 – 585 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Hussa of Bernicia | 585 – 592 | 7 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Æthelfrith of Northumbria | 592 – 616 | 24 years | died in battleWikidata's manner of death | |
| Edwin of Northumbria | 616 – 632 | 16 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eanfrith of Bernicia | 633 – 634 | 1 year | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Oswald of Northumbria | 634 – 642 | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 547 – 642. Median reign 7 years. 1 of 10 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
10,300 km² in 560, 10,300 km² in 610; at its largest 10,300 km² in 560. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
400 – 4991 row
- Ida of Bernicia · ruler · 450 – 559
500 – 5997 rows
- Glappa of Bernicia · ruler · 550 – 560
- Adda of Bernicia · ruler · 501 – 568
- Hussa of Bernicia · ruler · 501 – 592
- Æthelric of Bernicia · ruler · 501 – 572
- Eanfrith of Bernicia · ruler · 590 – 630
- Theodric of Bernicia · ruler · 501 – 579
- Frithuwald of Bernicia · ruler · 501 – 585
600 – 6993 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Oswald of Northumbria · ruler · 604 – 642
- Æthelfrith of Northumbria · ruler · 600 – 616
- Battle of Heavenfield · battle · 634
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood214 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held10,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 15% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 399 – 655, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 555, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q623751 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.