Ælfwald (East Anglia)

Ælfwald (also: Aelfwald, Ælfwaldus or Aelbwaldus ; † 749 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia from the Wuffinger dynasty from 713 to 749 .

Descent of Ælfwald in the Textus Roffensis

Life

Ælfwald's father was Ealdwulf . His mother's name is unknown. His sister Ecgburh became abbess of Repton . Nothing further is known of his brother Ælric.

Ælfwald succeeded his father Ealdwulf as king in 713. The oldest coins minted in East Anglia date from the time of Ælfwald and his father. After Æthelbald (716–757) became king of Mercia , relations between East Anglia and their powerful neighbor seem to have improved. Possibly Æthelbald owed his rise to an alliance with Ælfwald.

In the 730s Ælfwald commissioned the monk Felix to write a hagiography of St. Guthlac . He also had a genealogy of his ruling house made. The epic Beowulf may have been written down in the East Anglia of the Ælfwald. In the 740s he was in correspondence with Bonifatius , the "Apostle of the Germans". A received letter from Ælfwald shows that he had a good knowledge of the Latin language. With Ælfwald's death in 749, the Wuffinger dynasty died out. The kingdom was divided between Hunbeanna and Alberht . According to a different opinion, he was followed by the ruling kings Hun , Beorna and Æthelberht I.

swell

Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
Felix: Vita Sancti Guthlaci
Edward Kylie: The English correspondence of Saint Boniface , Chatto & Windus, London 1911, pp. 152-153.

literature

Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies) , Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1843835950 .
DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 .
Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)

Web links

Ælfwald 6 ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Ælfwald in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Anglian collection
↑ Sam Newton: The Origins of Beowulf: And the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia , Boydell & Brewer , 2004, ISBN 978-085991472-7 , p. XIII.
Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 95.
↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 63.
↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 112.
^ ^A ^b Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies) , Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1843835950 , p. 34.
^ K. Wade: East Anglia ; In: Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich and Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 6 , de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-010468-4 , p. 328.
↑ Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , p. 509.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ealdwulf	King of East Anglia 713-749	Hun Beorna Æthelberht I.

personal data
SURNAME	Ælfwald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aelfwald; Ælfwaldus; Aelbwaldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century
DATE OF DEATH	749

[ac-1] Anglian collection

[samXIII-2] Sam Newton: The Origins of Beowulf: And the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia , Boydell & Brewer , 2004, ISBN 978-085991472-7 , p. XIII.

[3] Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 95.

[4] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 63.

[5] DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 112.

[ric34-6] A ^b Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies) , Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1843835950 , p. 34.

[7] K. Wade: East Anglia ; In: Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich and Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 6 , de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-010468-4 , p. 328.

[8] Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , p. 509.