Æthelhere

The Kingdom of East Anglia in the early Anglo-Saxon period

Æthelhere (also Aedilheri , Æðelhere and Aethelhere ; † November 15, 655 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia from the Wuffinger dynasty from 654 to 655 .

family

Æthelheres father was Eni . Anna and Æthelwald were his brothers. Æthelric, named in the Anglian collection as Enis's son, is probably just a misspelling for Æthelhere. His wife Hereswitha, a sister of St. Hilda of Whitby , was related to the Northumbrian royal family. From the marriage, the future king Ealdwulf and possibly Ælcwald emerged as sons.

Life

His brother King Anna was killed in the Penda invasion from Mercia to East Anglia. Presumably Penda used Æthelhere as a subregulus (sub-king). Æthelhere was apparently largely dependent on Penda in his short reign, in any case he made him military service in the 655 campaign against Oswiu of Northumbria , which Penda and Æthelhere were initially able to push back. Also Athelwald of Deira and the Welsh king Cadfael ap Cynfeddw of Gwynedd were allies of Mercia, but left the army apparently before the decisive battle of the winwaed at Loidis ( Leeds ) on 15 November. In this battle both Penda and Æthelhere fell. While the north of Mercias went to Oswiu Northumbrias and the south to Penda's son Peada , Æthelwald followed Æthelhere in East Anglia.

swell

Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online in Project Gutenberg (English)

literature

Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies) , Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0

Web links

Æthelhere 1 ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Æthelhere in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies), Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0 , p. 33.
^ Anglian collection
^ ^A ^b E. B. Pryde, DE Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (Eds.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks) , Cambridge University Press, 1996 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-0- 521-56350-5 , p. 8.
↑ thelhere in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
↑ Frank Merry Stenton (author), Doris Mary Stenton (ed.): Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton (Oxford Scholarly Classics), Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19- 822314-6 , p. 400.
↑ Beda: HE 3.24

predecessor	Office	successor
Anna	King of East Anglia 654–655	Æthelwald

personal data
SURNAME	Æthelhere
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aedilheri; Æðelhere; Aethelhere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 655

[ric33-1] A ^b ^c Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies), Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0 , p. 33.

[ac-2] Anglian collection

[hbc-3] A ^b E. B. Pryde, DE Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (Eds.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks) , Cambridge University Press, 1996 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-0- 521-56350-5 , p. 8.

[fmg-4] thelhere in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

[5] Frank Merry Stenton (author), Doris Mary Stenton (ed.): Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton (Oxford Scholarly Classics), Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19- 822314-6 , p. 400.

[6] Beda: HE 3.24