Northumbria: the first English state??
The Iding Dynasty of Bernicia IDA ‘THE FLAMEBEARER’ AETHELRIC AETHELFRITH FIRST KING OF NORTHUMBRIA MARRIES PRINCESS ACHAAS OF DEIRA (BRIEF REIGN OF PRINCE EDWIN OF DEIRA) OSWALD THE SAINT
Codex Amiantinus
Athelfrith of Bernicia 593-616 ‘The Ravening Wolf’
BAMBOROUGH – FORTRESS OF ATHELFRITH
Degastan 603 Catterick 598 Heronbridge 615
NATURAL BORDERS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN FORTH CLYDE NATURAL BORDERS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN HADRIAN’S WALL HUMBER MERSEY WITHAM TRENT THE FENS
NORTHERN BRITISH KINGDOMS ON THE EVE OF ATHELFRITH’S CONQUEST C.590 SCOTS EDINBURGH NORTHERN BRITISH KINGDOMS ON THE EVE OF ATHELFRITH’S CONQUEST C.590 Lindisfarne Holy Island BAMBOROUGH BERNICIA STRATHCLYDE CARLISLE DURHAM YORK SUBSTANTIAL TOWN HADRIAN’S WALL NATURAL BORDER POLITCAL BORDER BRITISH KINGDOM ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOM DEIRA RHEGED YORK CATREATH LINDSAY ELMET CHESTER GWYNEDD MERCIA ELMET LICHFIELD THETFORD ANGLIA DEIRA
ATHELFRITH’S NORTHUMBRIA 615 – THE FIRST ENGLISH STATE SCOTS EDINBURGH LINDISFARNE BAMBOROUGH BERNICIA ATHELFRITH’S NORTHUMBRIA 615 – THE FIRST ENGLISH STATE DURHAM STRATHCLYDE ROYAL VIRS DEIRA FERTILE LAND YORK NORTHUMBRIAN BORDER HADRIAN’S WALL LINDSAY MERCIA ANGLIA
IDING STRONGHOLDS EDINBURGH BAMBOROUGH YORK DURHAM
The Church – key to statehood? Escomb Church, County Durham (675 AD)
OSWALD’S HEAVENLY VICTORY
FROM AIDAN’S IONIANS TO WILFRED’S ROMANS
THE SCHOLASTIC MONASTERY – FOUNT OF ENGLISH CULTURE
BEDE’S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY (LEFT) AND THE RUTHWELL CROSS (BELOW)
CUTHBERT – ANGLO-SAXON ‘CELEBRITY’ SAINT
ROYAL GOVERNMENT BEFORE AND AFTER OSWIU AND EGCFRITH (670s ONWARDS) THE ‘SCIR/BOOKLAND’ SYSTEM THE ‘VIR’ SYSTEM THE KING ROYAL HOUSEHOLD ROYAL STRONGHOLDS THE KING ROYAL HOUSEHOLD ROYAL STRONGHOLDS LINDISFARNE ABBEY ARCHBISHOP OF YORK VIR EARLDORMAN’S VIR MONASTERY BRITISH LEADERS THEGNS/PRIESTS THEGNS EARLDORMEN WARLORDS
LASTING LEGACY: KING EADBERHT AND ARCHBISHOP ECHBERHT’S SCEATTA OF 750 - THE FIRST ANGLO-SAXON COINAGE
EPITAPH: SAPIENS ALDFRITH AND THE LINDISFARNE GOSPEL
STAGNATION AND FALL
Videos Barbarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM4Auxml98 Monasteries http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b052zxhm/saints-and-sinners-britains-millennium-of-monasteries-episode-1