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718AD. Osric - Northumbria
718AD. Osric, half brother or maybe first cousin of Osred, took the throne at the death of Coenred.
(Simeon of Durham said that he was the son of King Aldfrith of Northumbria and therefore a brother or half-brother of Osred). Or he may, as others say have been the son of Eahlfrith of Deira, which would have made him a first cousin to Osred. Either way he appears to have been a close relative.
Nothing known of his reign, other than he selected Coenred’s brother Ceolwulf to be his successor.
729AD. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that, “Osric was slain”, and that two comets (a sign of ill omen) were seen, one that appeared at sunrise, the other at sunset.
