The pagan Mercian king Penda allied with the Christian Welsh king Cadwallon to destroy the most powerful Christian king in England. Edwin's death shattered Northumbrian hegemony and triggered a pagan backlash. Bede regarded it as a catastrophe. It temporarily reversed the Christianisation of Northumbria and established Mercia as a major power.
Edwin killed along with his son Osfrith
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