{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Osred II | succession = King of Northumbria | reign = 789–790 | predecessor = Ælfwald I | successor = Æthelred (2nd reign) | father = Alhred | mother = Osgifu | spouse = | issue = | birth_date = | death_date = 792 | death_place = | burial_place = Tynemouth Priory }} '''Osred II''' was King of Northumbria from 789 to 790. He was the son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht.
He succeeded Ælfwald, son of his mother's brother Oswulf, who was murdered by the ''patricius'' (ealdorman) Sicga.
Osred, even though he united two of the competing factions in Northumbria, was king for only a year before being deposed in favour of the previously deposed Æthelred son of Æthelwald Moll. Osred was then forcibly tonsured and exiled, apparently to the Isle of Man.<ref name=thf>[https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/EnglandBernicia.htm "Northumbria", The History Files]</ref>
He returned from exile in 792, but was abandoned by his soldiers and murdered on order of King Æthelred,<ref name=thf/> who had had Ælf and Ælfwine, sons of Ælfwald, killed the previous year, and had attempted to kill Eardwulf in 790. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' reports that he was "apprehended and slain on the eighteenth day before the calends of October. His body is deposited at Tynemouth."
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * Higham, N.J., ''The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100.'' Stroud: Sutton, 1993. {{ISBN|0-86299-730-5}} * Yorke, Barbara, ''Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England.'' London: Seaby, 1990. {{ISBN|1-85264-027-8}}
==External links== * {{PASE|67140|Osred 3}}
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