However, after that, its leader was defeated and dismembered after losing the Battle of MaserÂeld.
This kingdom was briefly conquered by Cadwallon ap Cadfan after the Battle of HatÂeld Chase, but it then defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of HeavenÂeld. However, after that, its leader was defeated and dismembered after losing the Battle of MaserÂeld. This kingdom came into being after the union of Bernicia and Deira by Aethelfrith, and ended when its king, Erik Bloodaxe, succumbed to annexation by Eadred. One of its rulers invited Saint Aidan from Iona to found a monastery that would produce this kingdom's patron saint, Cuthbert. That institution, which suffered a Viking raid in 793, is Lindisfarne.Another of its rulers held a meeting which decided that the Easter festival should be timed with customs of the Roman church, the Synod of Whitby. This kingdom contained the Jarrow Abbey, which was home to the author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Venerable Bede. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon kingdom which stretched up into Scotland.
This kingdom was briefly conquered by Cadwallon ap Cadfan after the Battle of HatÂeld Chase, but it then defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of HeavenÂeld.
Northumbrian kingdom