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ELLA (d. 867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 289 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELLA (d. 867) , See also:king of the Northumbrians, became king about 862 on the deposition of Osbert, although he was not of royal See also:birth. Afterwards he became reconciled with Osbert, and together they attacked the Danes, who had invaded See also:Northumbria, and drove them into See also:York. Rallying, however, the Danes defeated the Northumbrians, and in the encounter both Ella and Osbert were slain. In certain legends Ella is represented as having brought about the Danish invasion of Northumbria by cruel and unjust actions. See The Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, edited by C. Plummer (See also:Oxford, 1892–1899) ; See also:Bede, Historiae ecclesiasticae, edited by C. Plummer (Oxford, 1896); See also:Henry of See also:Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, edited by T. See also:Arnold, Rolls See also:Series (See also:London, 1879) ; See also:Asser, De See also:rebus gestis Aelfredi, edited by W. H. See also:Stevenson (Oxford, 1904); J. R.

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Green, The Making of See also:England (London, 1897), and the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, vol. i. (London, 1895).

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