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Date c. 500 - c. 900
Location Essex • Kent • Northumbria • Wessex • England
Participants Anglo-Saxon • Danish

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Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira
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Oswiu
king of Northumbria
Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
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Ceawlin
king of Wessex
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Edwin
king of Northumbria
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Raedwald
king of the East Angles
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Vortigern
king of the Britons
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
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Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
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Cadwallon
Welsh king of Gwynedd