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Ecgfrith was contending with other challenges to his overlordship.
Later he was to see in spirit the death of King Ecgfrith.
Ecgfrith decided it was time to remove Brude and teach the Picts an important lesson.
Coenwulf succeeded Ecgfrith as king.
Ecgfrith king of Mercia.
He was a son of Oswiu of Northumbria and a brother of Ecgfrith of Northumbria.
Ecgfrith was killed in battle, along with the greater part of his army.
The Northumbrian army was defeated and Ecgfrith slain.
He inherited from Ecgfrith a troubled relationship with Wilfrid, a major ecclesiastical figure of the time.
It is very possible then that Bridei was regarded by Ecgfrith as his sub-king.
Ecgfrith died after a rule of only five months and was succeeded by a distant kinsman, Coenwulf.
The traditional interpretation is that Bridei severed this relationship, causing the invervention of Ecgfrith.
Ecgfrith was buried on Iona and succeeded by his illegitimate half-brother, Aldfrith.
He succeeded his brother, Ecgfrith.
After Ecgfrith expelled him from York, Wilfrid travelled to Rome to appeal to the papacy.
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Bridei was later to defeat and kill Ecgfrith in the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685.
Ecgfrith of Northumbria granted Benedict land in 674 for the purpose of building a monastery.
In summer 684, an English expeditionary force sent by Northumbrian King Ecgfrith raided Brega.
Ecgfrith later married Eormenburg and expelled Wilfrid from his kingdom in 678.
Oswiu died in 670 and was succeeded by his son Ecgfrith.
Ecgfrith himself died before 796, and a distant relative Coenwulf took the throne.
She may have witnessed a charter with her father, mother, and brother Ecgfrith in the 770s.
Ecgfrith succeeded Oswiu as king of Northumbria in 670.
He died in 670CE and was succeeded by Ecgfrith his son.
When Wulfhere attacked Oswiu 's son Ecgfrith in 674, he did so from a position of strength.
She first witnessed a charter dated 770, along with Ecgfrith and Ælfflæd.
Britain ====* King Ecgfrith of Northumbria sends an punitive expedition to Ireland under his ealdorman Berht.
In 679 Aelfwine, the brother of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, died in battle against the Mercians.
In 674, Ecgfrith repelled the Mercian king Wulfhere, which enabled him to seize Lindsey.
