Ida de Bernicie

See also: Ida

Ida († 559 or 560) was king (probably the first) of Bernicie, of 547 approximately with 559 or 560. One allots to him the construction of the fortified town of Bamburgh. The tradition, brought back in the Anglo-Saxon Chronic , the fact wire of Eoppa, wire of Esa, wire of Ingwi, wire of Angenwit, wire of Aloc, wire of Bernic (éponyme of the Bernicie), wire of Brond, wire of Bældæg, wire of Woden, traditional of all the Anglo-Saxon royalty, equivalent ancestor of the god Odin. Esa and Eoppa are sometimes given like its predecessors, but nothing comes to support their historical reality.

The number and the names of its sons are not known clearly. The oldest source, the Historia Brittonum of Nennius, §57, gives the name of its queen and fourteen wire (although it is known as that it had had twelve of it): But Ida had twelve sounds, Adda, Belric Theodric, Thelric, Theodhere, Osmer, and one queen Bearnoch, Ealric. For He also had seven sounds, Eanfrid, Oswald, Oswin, Oswy, Oswudu, Oslac, Offa. (Source: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html) It was succeeded by one of its sons not named in this list, Glappa. Ethelric is quoted by the Anglo-Saxon Chronique ( s.a.a. 593E, 670A, 685A), like wire of Ida. Ocga is also quoted like his/her son ( Anglo-Saxon Chronique , S.a. 731A).

Sources

Nennius, Historia Brittonum , §§50, 56,57,61,63.
Chronic Anglo-Saxon , s.a.a. 547,560,593E, 670A, 685A, 731A.
Bède Worthy the, Ecclesiastical History , CH. XXIV, S.a. 547.

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