Oswin, king of Deira was murdered by the soldiers of Oswiu, king of Bernicia and subsequently his body was brought to Tynemouth for burial. He became St. Oswin and his burial place became a shrine visited by pilgrims.

In 792 Osred II, who had been king of Northumbria from 789 to 790 and then deposed, was murdered. He also was buried at Tynemouth Priory.

The third king to be buried at Tynemouth was Malcolm III, king of Scotland, who was killed at the Battle of Alnwick in 1093. (This is the same Malcolm who appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth.) The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander I, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona.