Eadwulf II of Northumbria (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Eadulf or Eadwulf (died 913) was a ruler in Northumbria in the early tenth century. The history of Northumbria in the ninth and tenth centuries is poorly recorded. English sources generally date from the twelfth century although some more nearly contemporary Irish annals report some events in Northumbria. Numismatic evidence-mints at York continued to produce coins throughout the period-is of considerable importance, although not in the period of Eadulf's presumed floruit as a new style of coinage appeared in Northumbria between 905 and 927 approximately. These coins bore the name of the city of York and the legend "Saint Peter's money" but no kings are named, so that they are of no help in determining the succession of rulers. The only thing which can be said with reasonable certainty of Eadwulf is that he died in 913 in Northumbria, an event recorded by the chronicle of thelweard and by the Irish Annals of Ulster and Annals of Clonmacnoise. The Irish sources call him "king of the Saxons of the north" while thelweard says Eadwulf "ruled as reeve of the town called Bamburgh."