The majority of the information is historically accurate,
though World of Darkness events are marked by italics and events
that I have added are marked in red.
As Northumbria was formed from two other Kingdoms - Deira and Bernicia
and as such was occasionally ruled by two kings, the years in which Northumbria
was ruled buy a single king are highlighted blue.
| Year |
Ruler |
Event |
| 547 |
Northumbria: Ida
Bernicia: Ida
Deira: No King
|
Ida the Flamebearer takes the Celtic settlement of Din
Guyardi and fortifies it with a palisade and hedge. |
| 550 |
Northumbria: Ida
Bernicia: Ida
Deira: No King |
Ida the Flamebearer has become an overking of the North following
a conquest of neighbouring territories including land south of the
Tees. |
| 560 |
Northumbria: Ida/Aelle I
Bernicia: Ida/Aelle I
Deira: Aelle I
|
Aelle, an Anglian chief, is conducting his people against the native
Britons in Deira (The Yorkshire Wolds). Aelle is the first king of
Deira. |
| 568 |
Bernicia: Aelle I/Aethelric
Deira: Aelle I
|
|
| 572 |
Bernicia: Aethelric/Theodric
Deira: Aelle I
|
|
| 575 |
Bernicia: Theodric
Deira: Aelle I |
Urien, the leader of the British kingdom of Rheged (Cumbria), besieges
King Theodoric of Bernicia on the island of Lindisfarne. The siege
lasts three days. |
| 579 |
Bernicia: Theodric/Frithuwald
Deira: Aelle I |
|
| 585 |
Bernicia: Frithuwald/Hussa
Deira: Aelle I |
|
| 588 |
Bernicia: Hussa
Deira: Aelle I/Hussa |
|
| 590 |
Northumbria: Hussa |
The Siege of Ynys Metcaut (Lindisfarne). The Northern British Alliance
(North Rheged, Strathclyde, Bryneich and Elmet) lays siege to King
Hussa of Bernicia and almost exterminates the Northumbrians from Northern
Britain. Urien the leader of the northern Britons is murdered on Lindisfarne.
He was betrayed by Morgan, a leader of the Goddodin tribe from Edinburgh.
The Northumbrians recover while internal squabbles tear the British
Alliance apart. |
| 593 |
Northumbria: Hussa/Aethelferth
|
|
| 598 |
Northumbria: Aethelferth |
Anglo-Saxons heavily defeat the native Britons at Catterick. The
ancient British tribal kingdom of Catraeth was based in the valleys
of the Tees and Swale and was subdued by the Germanic Angles. |