Osric (died 633 or 634) was aKing of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northernEngland. He was a cousin of kingEdwin of Northumbria, being the son of Edwin's uncleÆthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father ofOswine.

After Edwin was killed in battle againstCadwallon ap Cadfan ofGwynedd andPenda of Mercia,Northumbria fell into disarray, withEanfrith taking power in the sub-kingdom ofBernicia and Osric taking power in Deira. According toBede, Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted topaganism upon coming to power.

Cadwallon continued his ruinous invasion of Northumbria, however. Bede says that Osricbesieged Cadwallon "in a strong town", but Cadwallon successfully "sallied out on a sudden with all his forces, by surprise, and destroyed him [Osric] and all his army."

The year in which he and Eanfrith ruled was subsequently deemed so abhorrent because of their paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the ChristianOswald of Bernicia, who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as to ignore the brief reigns of Osric and Eanfrith.

• Bede,Ecclesiastical History of the English People,Book III, Chapter I.

• Osric 1 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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