Oswulf of Northumbria

Oswulf (also Osulf, Osulfus, Osuulf, Osuulfus; † 24 or July 25 759 in Market Weighton ) was 758-759 King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.

Life

Oswulf was the son of the king Eadberht; his mother is unknown. His uncle Ecgberht ( 732-766 ) was a bishop since 735 and Archbishop of York. The future King Ælfwald I. ( 778-788 ) was probably a son Oswulfs. Among historians, it is debatable whether Osgifu, the future wife of King Ealchred ( 765-774 ), his sister or daughter was. He ascended the throne when his father Eadberht in 758 abdicated in his favor, to retire as a monk in the monastery of York. It is assumed that there was an agreement between his father and his brother Archbishop Ecgbert, under which the latter take the advice of the new king and consolidate Oswulfs rule and should secure.

But the king of members of his household in Methel Wonghtun ( Market Weighton ) was assassinated on 24 or 25 July 759. Who was behind the assassination was not recorded, but went the conspiracy probably by Æthelwald minor, the immediate successor Oswulfs, from which may have been already involved in the abdication Eadberht.

Swell

• Anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online at Project Gutenberg (English)
• Symeon of Durham: Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis ( History of the Church of Durham )
• Symeon of Durham: De Regum Anglorum Gestis (Acts of the English kings )