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 grandson of Oswiu 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, there were no reports from any of the sources, of anything notable, or not, that happend in the kingdom during his time as a ruler, other than that he selected Coenred’s brother Ceolwulf to be his successor.
729AD. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that, “Osric was slain”, (possibly in revenge for the murder of of king Osred) and that two comets (a sign of ill omen) were seen, one that appeared at sunrise, the other at sunset.
