790AD Aethered I King Of Northumbria for the second time
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790AD. Aethelred I (For the second time) - Northumbria
790AD. Aethelred I came to the throne for the second time, when Osred II was deposed. In the same year Aethelred I, ordered an Earldorman of some prominence, Eardwulf killed and though badly wounded he survived the attack.
According to Simeon of Durham, "Earldorman Eadwulf was captured and brought to Ripon and orders were given by the... King for him to be killed there outside the gate of the monastery. And the bretheren carried his body to the church with Gregorian chants, and placed it outside in a tent, and after midnight he was found in the church alive."
After this miraculous escape from death, Eardwulf, as soon as he had recovered sufficiently, went into exile, possibly in the court of Charlemagne.
791AD. Aethelred I, in one of his purges had Aelfwald’s young sons, Elf and Elfwin killed.
792AD. Osred II returned from exile to try and regain his kingdom, But he was caught and slain. Osred II, was buried at Tynemouth.
In the same year Aethelred I, married Aethelfflaed, daughter of King Offa of Mercia.
793AD. Was a bad year for Northumbria. The weather was foul the crops failed, there was famine and to top it all off, the Vikings came to Lindisfarne. “The Anglo Saxon Chronicle” for the year reports; “Immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons flying across the firmament. These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine; and not long after on the ides of January, in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable of God in Holy-Island, by rapine and slaughter”.
794AD. Back to the Anglo Saxon Chronicles; “The heathen armies spread devastation amongst the Northumbrians and plundered the monastery of King Everth at the mouth of the Wear, there however some of their leaders were slain; and some of their ships were shattered to pieces by the violence of the weather; many of the crew were drowned; and some who escaped alive to the shore, were soon dispatched at the mouth of the river”.
This may have been misreported or mistranslated because the same details relate to the Viking raid carried out 794 on Biscops monastery at Jarrow
796AD. Aethelred I, was Killed near Corbridge by Ealdred, with the backing of Osbald. Ealdred was himself killed by Dortmund a follower of the king.
Osbald had himself appointed king by some nobles, but was deposed after only 27 days and fled to Pictland.
