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s description of fighting between Bernicians and the native Britons of the area, indicating ongoing resistance. It is also supported by the scarcity of sixth-century Anglo-Saxon archaeological finds from further inland.
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names six sons, Adda, Bealric, Theodric, Ethelric, Osmere, and Theodhere, born to his wife and six born to concubines, Ocga, Alric, Ecca, Oswald, Sogor and Sogothere. Ida's successor,
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give more information on Ida and his family; the text names Ida's "one queen" as Bearnoch and indicates that he had twelve sons, naming among them
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indicates that Ida's reign began in 547, and records him as the son of Eoppa, grandson of Esa, and great-grandson of Ingwy. Likewise, the
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At the time Ida ruled, Bernician control did not extend far inland from the coast. It was not until the time of
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notes that such an identification has little to back it; other writers, such as
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elaborates that he ruled for twelve years and built the Bernician capital of
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The chronicle of Florence of Worcester, with the two continuations
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confuses his territory with the later Northumbria, saying that
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resistance and ultimately founded the powerful kingdom of
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Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
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Some 18th- and 19th-century commentators, beginning with
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calls him as the son of Eoppa and the first king of
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John Speed
King of Bernicia
Glappa
Issue
Adda
Æthelric
Theodric
/ˈɪdɑː/
king
Anglian
Bernicia
Anglo-Saxon
northern England
Scotland
Brittonic
Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Historia Brittonum
Bamburgh Castle
Ælla
Deira
Æthelfrith
Adda
Æthelric
Theodric
Urien Rheged
Chronicon ex chronicis
Glappa

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