That Edwin was able to take power not only his native Deira, but also Bernicia, may have been due to his support from Raedwald, to whom he may have remained subject during the early part of his reign. Edwin was installed as king of Northumbria, effectively confirming Raedwald as Bretwalda Æthelfrith's sons went into exile in Irish Dál Riata and Pictland. Regardless of the exact course of events, Raedwald faced Æthelfrith in battle by the river Idle in 616, and Æthelfrith was killed, along with Raedwald's son Raegenhere. Bede reports that Æthelfrith tried to have Raedwald murder his unwanted rival, and that Raedwald was minded to do so, only being persuaded otherwise by his wife with Divine prompting. īy around 616, Edwin was in East Anglia, under the protection of king Raedwald. By the 610s he was certainly in Mercia, under the protection of king Cearl, whose daughter Cwenburh he married. The location of his early exile as a child is not known, but late traditions, reported by Reginald of Durham and Geoffrey of Monmouth, place Edwin in the kingdom of Gwynedd, fostered by king Cadfan ap Iago, so allowing biblical parallels to be drawn from the struggle between Edwin and his supposed foster-brother Cadwallon. During the reign of Æthelfrith, Edwin was an exile. Æthelfrith himself appears to have been king of " Northumbria"-both Deira and Bernicia-by no later than 604.
He may have been a brother of Ælle, an elder brother of Edwin, an otherwise unknown Deiran noble, or the father of Æthelfrith. The exact identity of Æthelric is uncertain. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that on Ælle's death a certain " Æthelric" assumed power.
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