Oswiu, though vastly outnumbered, defeated and killed Penda and thirty of his royal allies at the flooded River Winwaed. Bede records that the river swept away many in Penda army during flight. Oswiu had vowed to give his daughter to God and twelve estates to monasteries if he survived. The battle ended the last great pagan English kingdom.
Penda and many sub-kings and their retinues killed; river floods added to losses in flight
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