Æthelwald (East Anglia)

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

Æthelwald (also Aediluald and Aethelwold , German: "noble ruler"; † 664 ) was from 655 to 664 king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia from the Wuffinger dynasty .

family

Æthelwald's father was Eni . Kings Anna and Æthelhere were his brothers and predecessors. Æthelric, named in the Anglian collection as Enis's son, is probably just a misspelling for his brother Æthelhere.

Life

Æthelwald's brother Æthelhere was largely dependent on Penda of Mercia during his brief reign . Penda and Æthelhere fell in the battle of Winwaed near Loidis ( Leeds ) on November 15, 655 against Oswiu of Northumbria . While the north of Mercias went to Oswiu and the south to Penda's son Peada , Æthelwald succeeded the throne in East Anglia.

Hardly anything has been handed down about Æthelwald's rule. A supremacy of East Anglia over Essex cannot be ruled out for the time of Æthelwald. Æthelwald was the godfather when King Swithhelm of Essex was baptized by Bishop Cedd around 661 in Rendelsham, the royal seat of East Anglia .

Æthelwald probably died in 664 when an epidemic broke out across Britain that claimed numerous victims.

swell

Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum . Online in Medieval Sourcebook (English)

literature

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

Æthelwald 5 ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Æthelwald in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b 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 (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks). 3. Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 , p. 8.
↑ Beda: HE 3.24
↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 65.
^ Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies), Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0 , p. 26.
↑ Beda: HE 3.22
↑ Beda: HE 3.27

predecessor	Office	successor
Æthelhere	King of East Anglia 655–664	Ealdwulf

personal data
SURNAME	Æthelwald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aediluald; Aethelwold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH	664

[ric33-1] A ^b 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] E. B. Pryde, DE Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks). 3. Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 , p. 8.

[4] Beda: HE 3.24

[5] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 65.

[ric26-6] Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies), Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0 , p. 26.

[7] Beda: HE 3.22

[8] Beda: HE 3.27