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Oswald of Northumbria
King of Northumbria
- Child of Æthelfrith of Northumbria and Acha of Deira
- Married to Kyneburga of Wessex
- Dated c. 604 CE – 5 August 642 CE
- Recognised as Catholic saint
king of Bernicia
king of Deira
King of Northumbria
Offices on record
Overview
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Life
3 offices on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- 634 CE – 5 August 642 CE king of Deira
- 634 CE – 5 August 642 CE King of Northumbria
Family
The family of Oswald of Northumbria
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 7
Family 7
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Acha of Deira Deiran princess, wife of Æthelfrith of Bernicia
- child of (child) Æthelfrith of Northumbria Bernician king
- parent of (father) Œthelwald of Deira King of Deira
- sibling of Æbbe of Coldingham saint
- sibling of Eanfrith of Bernicia King of Bernicia
- sibling of Oswiu 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king
- married to Kyneburga of Wessex
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Associated with
Sources
Sources and evidence
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12 statements on this record
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- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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