Aethelric or Æþelric was the fourth known king of the
Kingdom of Bernicia
Bernicia ( ang, Bernice, Bryneich, Beornice; la, Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.
The Anglian territory of Bernicia was appr ...
which he ruled from 568 to 572.
Aethelric was one of the sons of
Ida of Bernicia, founder of the kingdom. During his reign the Bernicians met the Britons in three important battles, the first on the offensive, the others on the defensive.
[Leonard Dutton, ''The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: the power struggles from Hengist to Ecgberht'' (1993), p. 108]
He was the father of
Æthelfrith, who was the first monarch to rule both Bernicia and
Deira, the two constituent parts of what came to be considered
Northumbria
la, Regnum Northanhymbrorum
, conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Northumbria
, common_name = Northumbria
, status = State
, status_text = Unified Anglian kingdom (before 876)North: Anglian kingdom (af ...
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History of Northumberland
6th-century English monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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