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729AD. Ceolwulf - Northumbria
729AD. Ceolwulf, the brother of Coenred became king. He was selected by Osric to be his successor.
731AD Bede completed the “Ecclesiastical History Of the English Nation” and dedicated it “To the most glorious King Ceolwulf ”.
In the first appended entry Bede wrote “In the year 731 King Ceolwulf was taken prisoner and tonsured and sent back to his kingdom”. Details of his capture and subsequent release are not very clear, but in the aftermath Bishop Acca of Hexham was forced to vacate his seat.
737AD. After only eight years as king Ceolwulf abdicated, passed the crown to his cousin Prince Eadberht, retired to Lindisfarne and became a monk.
764AD. Ceolwulf died and was buried in Lindisfarne Priory, alongside St Cuthbert.
