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[[Category:Kingdom of Northumbria]]
==Biography==
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:'''Oswulf or Osulf fl. 946 - 954 d. ~954 - ante 963 High Reeve of Bamb u r g h ' '' [Charles Cawley, "England, Anglo-Saxon N o b i l i ty: Chapter 5. Northumbria", ''Medieval Lands: A prosopography of m e d i e v al European noble and royal families'', (V3 Updated 29 May 2014), ' ' F o u n dation for Medieval Genealogy'', (http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ E N G L A ND,%20AngloSaxon%20nobility.htm#_Toc284396931 accessed 20 Septembe r 2 0 1 7 ) .]
Oswulf's date and place of birth are not known, but as ''Osulf dux'' he w i t n e s sed charters of King �thelstan in 934.[ " R e f e rence: Glossary", ''Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England'', http:/ / p a s e .ac.uk/reference/glossary.html, accessed 21 September 2017.] H e w o u l d h ave been an adult when he witnessed those charters, so he was b o r n b e f ore 913.
Medieval Lands doesn't mention Osulf's parents, wives, or children. Wik i p e d i a talks about the speculations of historians. Some think it might h a v e b e e n [[Alfred-26|Ealdred of Bamburgh (d.c.933)]], or one of Ealdred ' s r e l a tives.
Oswulf was[William M. Aird, `Uhtred, earl o f B a m b u rgh (d. 1016)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxf or d U n i v ersity Press, 2004.] or probably was the son of Ealdred, d i ed c i r c a 933, leader of the Northumbrians, who was the son of Eadulf.< r ef n a m e =ODNBEaldredDied933>Benjamin T. Hudson, `Ealdred (d. 933?)', '' O xf o r d D ictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200 4 . E a l d red (d. 933?): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39225
Oswulf became the first recognized earl of Northumbria in 953 and main t a i n e d the alliance with Scotland that his father had forged.However ea r l y i n h i s rule, in 914, Scotland's alliance with the Danish Yorkshirem e n e n d e d as the Dublin Norse prepared to control York.[Hayes, Jean A n n e , " A nglian leadership in Northumbria, 547 A.D. through 1075 A.D." (2 0 0 5 ) . L SU Doctoral Dissertations. 1986.https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/g r a d s c hool_dissertations/1986 (accessed Jul 2023).]
===Succession ===
Oswulf's family ruled Bernicia (Northumbria north of the Tyne) from the S c a n d i navian invasion and settlement of the late ninth century.
*Eadulf, was the father of: **Ealdred of Bamburgh, died circa 933, lead e r o f t h e N orthumbrians and lord of Bamburgh, was the father of:
***Oswulf, died 966, was the father of:
****Eadwulf, was probably the father of
*****Waltheof, flourished circa 994-1006, was the father of:
*****#Uhtred, earl of Bamburgh, died 1016, and
*****#Eadulf Cudel.
When Eadread succeeded his older brother, Edmund, as king of England in 9 4 6 , t h e re were two rival factions in the kingdom of York, Osulf of Bamb u r g h l e d one, Wulfstan, archbishop of York, led the other. Eadread had c o n t r o l of York in 949-50, when he issued charters as "king of the Engli s h , N o r thumbrians, pagans and Britons".
==Sources==
See also:*"England, AngloSaxon nobility: Northumbria." Medieval Lands v . 3 . f m g .ac
*[[Wikipedia: Osulf I of Bamburgh]]* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/E N G L A N D,%20AngloSaxon%20nobility.htm#_Toc284396931 fmg.ac]
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Bef 913 - Bef 963 (< 50 years)