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See also: king of Northumbria, son of /Ethelfrith and
See also: brother of See also: Oswald, whom he succeeded in See also: Bernicia in 642 after the See also: battle of Maserfeld, was the seventh of the See also: great See also: English See also: kings enumerated by See also: Bede
.
He succeeded in making the majority of the Britons, Picts and Scots tributary to .him
.
At Gilling in 651 he caused the See also: murder of Oswine, a relative of Edwin, who had become king of See also: Deira, and a few years later took possession of that See also: kingdom
.
He appears to have consolidated his power by the aid of the See also: Church and by a series of judicious matrimonial alliances
.
It was probably in 642 that he married Eanfied, daughter of Edwin, thus uniting the two
See also: rival dynasties of Northumbria
.
His daughter Alhfled he married to Peada, son of See also: Penda, king of See also: Mercia, while anotherdaughter, Osthryth, became the wife of /See also: Ethelred, third son of the same king
.
See also: Oswio was chiefly responsible for the reconversion of the See also: East See also: Saxons
.
He is said to have convinced their king Sigeberht of the truth of See also: Christianity by his arguments, and at his See also: request sent Cedd, a brother of Ceadda, on a See also: mission to See also: Essex
.
In 655 he was attacked by Penda, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to buy him off, defeated and slew the Mercian king at the battle of the Winwaed
.
He then took possession of See also: part of Mercia, giving the rest to Peada
.
As a thank-offering he dedicated his daughter AElfled to the Church, and founded the monastery of See also: Whitby
.
About this See also: time he is thought by many to have obtained some footing in the kingdom of the Picts in succession to their king Talorcan, the son of his brother Eanfrid
.
In 66o he married his son See also: Ecgfrith to /Ethelthryth, daughter of the East Anglian king Anna
.
In 664 at the See also: synod of Whitby, Oswio accepted the usages of the See also: Roman Church, which led to the departure of Colman and the See also: appointment of See also: Wilfrid as See also: bishop of See also: York
.
Oswio died in 67o and was succeeded by his son Ecgfrith
.
See Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ii., iii., iv., v., edited by C
.
Plummer (See also: Oxford, 1896) ; Anglo-Saxon See also: Chronicle, edited by Earle and Plummer (Oxford, 1899)
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