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Bernicia
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Bernicia (bərnĭsh`ə), Old English kingdom. Established in 547, it later extended from the Tees River to the Forth. In the late 6th cent. it was united with Deira to form Northumbria Northumbria, kingdom of , one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England. It was originally composed of two independent kingdoms divided by the Tees River, Bernicia (including modern E Scotland, Berwick, Roxburgh, E Northumberland, and Durham) and Deira (including the
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Bernicia

Ancient northern Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It stretched northward from perhaps as far south as the River Tees, ultimately reaching the Firth of Forth. By the end of the 7th century AD it had united with its neighbour Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria. It had a royal residence at coastal Bamburgh. The first recorded king, Ida, was crowned there in 547; his grandson Aethelfrith (r. 593–616) united Bernicia and Deira.
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Woden's Day 547: Battle for Northumbria tells the tale of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons on the North East coast and their reception by the local Brits, which eventually leads to the founding of the kingdom of Bernicia.
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The fortress Ida captured was then in the Celtic kingdom of Bernicia and named Dinguaroy (there are various spellings of this).
In My View by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Thus did king Ida found the Kingdom of Bernicia in 547AD (later Northumbria) The English roots were established in Britain in the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries.
Majority of the English descend from Angles by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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