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Oswald
King of the East Angles
Reign20 November 869 – 875[1]
PredecessorEdmund the Martyr
SuccessorÆthelred II

Oswald was king of East Anglia, present-day England in the 870s after the death of Edmund the Martyr. No textual evidence of his reign is known, but coins inscribed with his name are known.

  1. ^ Lapidge 1999, pp. 508–509.

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