Osred II was King of Northumbria from 789 to 790. He was the son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht.
He succeeded ÃÂlfwald, son of his mother's brother Oswulf, who was murdered by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga.
Osred, even though he united two of the competing factions in Northumbria, was king for only a year before being deposed in favour of the previously deposed ÃÂthelred son of ÃÂthelwald Moll. Osred was then forcibly tonsured and exiled, apparently to the Isle of Man.
He returned from exile in 792, but was abandoned by his soldiers and murdered on order of King ÃÂthelred, who had had ÃÂlf and ÃÂlfwine, sons of ÃÂlfwald, killed the previous year, and had attempted to kill Eardwulf in 790. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that he was "apprehended and slain on the eighteenth day before the calends of October. His body is deposited at Tynemouth."