King of Northumbria and Martyr. Born,
probably, 605; died 5 Aug., 642.
The
second of seven brothers, sons
of Ethelfrid, who was grandson of Ida, founder of the
Kingdom of
Northumbria
in 547. Oswald's
mother was Acha, daughter of Ella or Alla, who, after
Ida's death, had seized Deira and thus separated it from the
Northern
Bernicia...
Died at Gilling,
Yorkshire,
England,
on August 20, 651.
When
his father, King Osric of Deira (roughly the county of Yorkshire), was killed
by the pagan Welsh King Cadwallon in 633, he was taken to Wessex for safety,
baptized, and educated there by Saint Aidan...
Saints of the British Isles 
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