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class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">737–758</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ceolwulf_of_Northumbria" title="Ceolwulf of Northumbria">Ceolwulf</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oswulf_of_Northumbria" title="Oswulf of Northumbria">Oswulf</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">19 or 20 August 768<sup id="cite_ref-brit_Edbe_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brit_Edbe-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label"><a href="/wiki/York_Minster" title="York Minster">York Minster</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oswulf_of_Northumbria" title="Oswulf of Northumbria">Oswulf, King of Northubria</a><br />Oswine<br />Osgifu</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">House</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ida_of_Bernicia" title="Ida of Bernicia">Idings</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data">Eata</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Eadberht</b> (died 19 or 20 August 768) was <a href="/wiki/King_of_Northumbria" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Northumbria">king of Northumbria</a> from 737 or 738 to 758. He was the brother of <a href="/wiki/Ecgbert,_Archbishop_of_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecgbert, Archbishop of York">Ecgbert, Archbishop of York</a>. His reign is seen as a return to the imperial ambitions of seventh-century <a href="/wiki/Northumbria" title="Northumbria">Northumbria</a> and may represent a period of economic prosperity. He faced internal opposition from rival dynasties and at least two actual or potential rivals were killed during his reign. In 758 he abdicated in favour of his son <a href="/wiki/Oswulf_of_Northumbria" title="Oswulf of Northumbria">Oswulf</a> and became a monk at <a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eadberht became ruler of Northumbria following the second abdication of his cousin <a href="/wiki/Ceolwulf_of_Northumbria" title="Ceolwulf of Northumbria">Ceolwulf</a>, who entered the monastery at <a href="/wiki/Lindisfarne" title="Lindisfarne">Lindisfarne</a>. Unlike Ceolwulf's first abdication, which clearly involved force, his second, in favour of Eadberht, may have been voluntary.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_(YORYM_2000_2283)_obverse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg/220px-Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg/330px-Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg/440px-Silver_sceatta_of_Eadberht_%28YORYM_2000_2283%29_obverse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2204" data-file-height="2273" /></a><figcaption>Silver sceatta of Eadberht</figcaption></figure> <p>Eadberht son of Eata was a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Ida_of_Bernicia" title="Ida of Bernicia">Ida of Bernicia</a> through either his son Ocga (<a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anglian_collection" title="Anglian collection">Anglian collection</a>) or Eadric (<i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Brittonum" title="Historia Brittonum">Historia Brittonum</a></i>). The genealogy gives Eadberht's father Eata the <a href="/wiki/Cognomen" title="Cognomen">cognomen</a> <i>Glin Mawr</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Northumbria">Northumbria</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Northumbria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eadberht appears to have faced opposition from rival families throughout his reign. Eardwine, probably the son of King <a href="/wiki/Eadwulf_I_of_Northumbria" title="Eadwulf I of Northumbria">Eadwulf</a>, and grandfather of the future king <a href="/wiki/Eardwulf_of_Northumbria" title="Eardwulf of Northumbria">Eardwulf</a>, was killed in 740.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 750 Offa, son of King <a href="/wiki/Aldfrith_of_Northumbria" title="Aldfrith of Northumbria">Aldfrith</a> was taken from the sanctuary of Lindisfarne and put to death after a siege, while Bishop <a href="/wiki/Cynewulf_of_Lindisfarne" title="Cynewulf of Lindisfarne">Cynewulf of Lindisfarne</a>, who had presumably supported Offa, was deposed and detained in <a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The importance of religious foundations in Northumbrian political struggles and family feuds is apparent. Eardwine's family is associated with <a href="/wiki/Ripon" title="Ripon">Ripon</a>, Offa and Ceolwulf with Lindisfarne, and <a href="/wiki/Hexham" title="Hexham">Hexham</a> appears to have supported kings and noblemen opposed by the Lindisfarne community.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eadberht, however, as brother of the Archbishop of York, enjoyed the support of the greatest Northumbrian prelate.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eadberht's reign saw major reforms to the Northumbrian coinage, and some coins name King Eadberht and Archbishop Ecgberht. Kirby concludes that "the indications are that Eadberht was bringing new prosperity to his kingdom."<sup id="cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby,_p._150-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A letter sent by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_I" title="Pope Paul I">Pope Paul I</a> to Eadberht and Ecgberht, ordering them to return lands taken from Abbot Fothred, and given to his brother Moll, presumed to be the same person as the later king <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwald_Moll" class="mw-redirect" title="Æthelwald Moll">Æthelwald Moll</a>, suggests that Eadberht's reign saw attempts at reclaiming some of the vast lands which had been granted to the church in earlier reigns.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Neighbours">Neighbours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Neighbours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kirby suggests that "a revival of seventh-century northern imperial ambitions had evidently occurred among the Northumbrians at the court of Eadberht".<sup id="cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby,_p._150-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first record of Eadberht's efforts to recreate this dominion appear in 740, the year of Earnwine's death. A war between the Picts and the Northumbrians is reported, during which <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelbald_of_Mercia" title="Æthelbald of Mercia">Æthelbald</a>, King of <a href="/wiki/Mercia" title="Mercia">Mercia</a>, took advantage of the absence of Eadberht to ravage his lands. The reason for the war is unclear, but Woolf suggests that it was related to the killing of Earnwine. Earnwine's father had been an exile in the north after his defeat in the civil war of 705–706, and it may be that the Pictish king <a href="/wiki/%C3%93engus_I_of_the_Picts" class="mw-redirect" title="Óengus I of the Picts">Óengus</a>, or Æthelbald, or both, had tried to place him on the Northumbrian throne.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 750, Eadberht conquered the plain of <a href="/wiki/Kyle,_Ayrshire" title="Kyle, Ayrshire">Kyle</a> and in 756, he campaigned alongside King Óengus against the <a href="/wiki/Britons_(historical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Britons (historical)">Britons</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alt_Clut" class="mw-redirect" title="Alt Clut">Alt Clut</a>. The campaign is reported as follows: </p> <dl><dd>In the year of the Lord's incarnation 756, king Eadberht in the eighteenth year of his reign, and Unust, king of Picts led armies to the town of <a href="/wiki/Dumbarton" title="Dumbarton">Dumbarton</a>. And hence the Britons accepted terms there, on the first day of the month of August. But on the tenth day of the same month perished almost the whole army which he led from Ouania to Niwanbirig.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>That Ouania is <a href="/wiki/Govan" title="Govan">Govan</a> is now reasonably certain,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the location of Newanbirig is less so. Although there are many Newburghs, it is Newburgh-on-Tyne near <a href="/wiki/Hexham" title="Hexham">Hexham</a> that has been the preferred location.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby,_p._150-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An alternative interpretation of the events of 756 has been advanced: it identifies Newanbirig with <a href="/wiki/Newborough,_Staffordshire" title="Newborough, Staffordshire">Newborough</a> by <a href="/wiki/Lichfield" title="Lichfield">Lichfield</a> in the kingdom of Mercia. A defeat here for Eadberht and Óengus by Æthelbald's Mercians would correspond with the claim in the Saint Andrews foundation legends that a king named Óengus son of Fergus founded the church there as a thanksgiving to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Andrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Andrew">Saint Andrew</a> for saving him after a defeat in Mercia.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Abdication">Abdication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Abdication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eadberht abdicated in 758, entering the monastery attached to the cathedral of York. His death there in 768 is recorded in <a href="/wiki/Symeon_of_Durham" title="Symeon of Durham">Symeon of Durham</a>'s chronicle.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby,_p._150-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Symeon's <i>History of the Church of Durham</i> records that Eadberht was buried in the porch of the cathedral, alongside his brother Ecgberht, who had died in 766. </p><p>His son <a href="/wiki/Oswulf_of_Northumbria" title="Oswulf of Northumbria">Oswulf</a> succeeded him, but was murdered within the year.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, his daughter Osgifu's husband <a href="/wiki/Alhred_of_Northumbria" title="Alhred of Northumbria">Alhred</a> became king, and Eadberht's descendants, such as Oswulf's son <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwald_I_of_Northumbria" title="Ælfwald I of Northumbria">Ælfwald</a> and Osgifu's son <a href="/wiki/Osred_II_of_Northumbria" title="Osred II of Northumbria">Osred</a> contested for the Northumbrian throne until the end of the century. Eadberht's last known descendant is Osgifu's son Saint <a href="/wiki/Alcmund_of_Derby" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcmund of Derby">Alhmund</a>, murdered in 800 on the orders of King <a href="/wiki/Eardwulf_of_Northumbria" title="Eardwulf of Northumbria">Eardwulf</a>, and reputed a <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyr</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-brit_Edbe-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-brit_Edbe_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edbert">"Edbert | king of Northumbria"</a>. <i>Encyclopedia Britannica</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Edbert+%7C+king+of+Northumbria&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+Britannica&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FEdbert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEadberht+of+Northumbria" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, p. 149; Yorke, <i>Kings</i>, p. 88. Higham, p. 149, takes the Lindisfarne community's opposition to Eadberht in 750 as a sign that the abdication may not have been voluntary.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>HB</i>, c. 61. <i>Eda Glinmawr</i> is mentioned in a Welsh triad, but this cannot be Eadberht's father.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, pp. 150 & 154; Yorke, <i>Kings</i>, p. 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Higham, pp. 148–149; Kirby, p. 150; York, <i>Kings</i>, p. 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Higham, p. 149; Yorke, <i>Conversion</i>, pp. 242–243.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Campbell, p. 103.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kirby,_p._150-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby,_p._150_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, p. 150.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yorke, <i>Kings</i>, p. 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Woolf, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">After Forsyth, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Forsyth, pp. 29–30; Woolf, p. 39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Woolf, pp. 39–40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A possible second son, Oswine, was killed in battle on 6 August 761 leading a rebellion against King <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwald_Moll" class="mw-redirect" title="Æthelwald Moll">Æthelwald Moll</a>; Marsden, pp. 232–233.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, p. 151; Yorke, <i>Kings</i>, p. 90, table 11.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Campbell, James, <i>The Anglo-Saxon State.</i> London: Hambeldon, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85285-176-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-85285-176-7">1-85285-176-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Forsyth" title="Katherine Forsyth">Forsyth, Katherine</a>. "Evidence of a lost Pictish source in the <i>Historia Regum Anglorum</i>" in Simon Taylor (ed.) <i>Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.</i> Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85182-516-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-85182-516-9">1-85182-516-9</a></li> <li>Higham, N.J., <i>The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350–1100.</i> Stroud: Sutton, 1993. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86299-730-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-86299-730-5">0-86299-730-5</a></li> <li>Kirby, D.P., <i>The Earliest English Kings.</i> London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-04-445691-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-04-445691-3">0-04-445691-3</a></li> <li>Marsden, J., <i>Northanhymbre Saga: The History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria.</i> London: Cathie, 1992. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85626-055-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-85626-055-0">1-85626-055-0</a></li> <li>(<i>HB</i>) Morris, John (ed. & tr.), <i>Nennius: British History and The Welsh Annals.</i> London: Phillimore, 1980. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85033-297-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-85033-297-4">0-85033-297-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Woolf" title="Alex Woolf">Woolf, Alex</a>, "Onuist son of Uurguist : tyrannus carnifex or a David for the Picts ?" in David Hill & Margaret Worthington (eds.) <i>Aethelbald and Offa : two eighth-century kings of Mercia</i> (British Archaeological Reports, British series, no. 383). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84171-687-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-84171-687-1">1-84171-687-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Yorke" title="Barbara Yorke">Yorke, Barbara</a>, <i>Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England.</i> London: Seaby, 1990. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85264-027-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-85264-027-8">1-85264-027-8</a></li> <li>Yorke, Barbara. <i>The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800.</i> London: Longman, 2006. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-582-77292-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-582-77292-3">0-582-77292-3</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eadberht_of_Northumbria&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pase.ac.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=3286">Eadberht 11</a> at <a href="/wiki/Prosopography_of_Anglo-Saxon_England" title="Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England">Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td 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