Coenred of Northumbria

Coenred
Coenred
King of Northumbria
Reign	716–718
Predecessor	Osred
Successor	Osric
Died	718

Coenred (sometimes given as Cenred or Kenred) was king of Northumbria from 716 to 718.

Life

He descended from Ida of Bernicia, and was the first of his branch of the family to rule Northumbria. John of Fordun claims that he and Osric murdered his predecessor Osred.^[1] Bede merely mentions that Osred was slain;^[2] the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle places it somewhere "on the southern border".^[3]^[4] William of Malmesbury calls him "a draught from the same cup" as Osred, which is to say a young man, vigorous, dissolute, cruel and bold.

Coenred claimed descent from Ida of Bernicia. In the Gesta Regum Anglorum, it is written by William of Malmesbury that his brother, Ceolwulf "was the son of Cutha, Cutha of Cuthwin, Cuthwin of Leoldwald, Leoldwald of Egwald, Egwald of Aldhelm, Aldhelm of Ocga, Ocga of Ida, Ida of Eoppa."^[5]

He was succeeded by Osric, brother, or half-brother, of Osred.^[4] Coenred's brother Ceolwulf became king after Osric.^[4]

References

^ Fordun, John of; Skene, Felix James Henry; Skene, W. F. (William Forbes) (1872). John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish nation. University of California Libraries. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas.
^ the Venerable, Saint Bede (1999). The Ecclesiastical History of the English People: The Greater Chronicle ; Bede's Letter to Egbert. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-19-283866-7.
^ A History of Northumberland in Three Parts, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1858, p. 98 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ ^a ^b ^c The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Tiger Books International. 1995. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-517-14079-6.
^ William, of Malmesbury; Mynors, R. A. B. (Roger Aubrey Baskerville); Winterbottom, Michael; Thomson, Rodney M. (1998). Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings, vol. 1.

External links

Cenred 4 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

[1] Fordun, John of; Skene, Felix James Henry; Skene, W. F. (William Forbes) (1872). John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish nation. University of California Libraries. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas.

[2] the Venerable, Saint Bede (1999). The Ecclesiastical History of the English People: The Greater Chronicle ; Bede's Letter to Egbert. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-19-283866-7.

[3] A History of Northumberland in Three Parts, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1858, p. 98 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[:0-4] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Tiger Books International. 1995. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-517-14079-6.

[hind-5] William, of Malmesbury; Mynors, R. A. B. (Roger Aubrey Baskerville); Winterbottom, Michael; Thomson, Rodney M. (1998). Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings, vol. 1.

[6] Rulers with names in italics are considered fictional

[7] Mackenzie, E; Ross, M (1834). An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham. Vol. I. Newcastle upon Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent. p. xi. Retrieved 2012-02-28.

[8] Downham, Clare (2007), Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014, Edinburgh: Dunedin, ISBN 978-1-903765-89-0, OCLC 163618313

[9] Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5, OCLC 123113911

[10] Zaluckyj, Sarah & Feryok, Marge. Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England (2001) ISBN 1-873827-62-8

[11] Barbara Yorke (1995), Wessex in the early Middle Ages, A & C Black, ISBN 071851856X; pp 79-83; table p. 81

[12] Kelly, S. E. (2004). "Kings of the South Saxons (act. 477–772)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52344. Retrieved 2017-02-03. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[13] Keynes, Simon (2014). "Appendix I: Rulers of the English, c.450–1066". In Lapidge, Michael (ed.). The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-65632-7.

[14] Kirby, D. P. The Earliest English Kings. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-4152-4211-0.

[15] Lapidge, M.; et al., eds. (1999). "Kings of the East Angles". The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1.

[16] Searle, W. G. 1899. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles.

[17] Yorke, B. 1990. Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England.

[18] Carpenter, Clive. Kings, Rulers and Statesmen. Guinness Superlatives, Ltd.

[19] Ross, Martha. Rulers and Governments of the World, Vol. 1. Earliest Times to 1491.

[20] Ashley, Michael (1998). British Monarchs: the Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain. London: Robinson. ISBN 978-1-8548-7504-4.

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Monarchs of Northumbria
Kings of Bernicia 547–670	Ida Glappa Adda Æthelric Theodric Frithuwald Hussa Æthelfrith Edwin Eanfrith Oswald Oswiu
Kings of Deira 560–679	Ælla Æthelric Æthelfrith Edwin Osric Oswald Oswiu Oswine Œthelwald Alhfrith Ælfwine
Kings of Northumbria 642–867	Oswiu Ecgfrith Ealdfrith Eadwulf I Osred I Coenred Osric Ceolwulf Eadberht Oswulf Æthelwald Moll Ealhred Æthelred I Ælfwald I Osred II Osbald Eardwulf Ælfwald II Eanred Æthelred II Redwulf Osberht Ælla
Kings of Viking Northumbria 867–954	Ecgberht Ricsige Halfdan I Guthfrith I Siefredus Cnut Æthelwold Airdeconut Eowils Halfdan II Ingwær Ragnall I Sitric I Caech Guthfrith II Olaf I Guthfrithson Sitric II Olaf II Cuaran Ragnall II Guthfrithson Eric Bloodaxe

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