Beorna
Beorna (also: Beonna, Beanna or Bynna ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia around the middle of the 8th century.
Life
With Ælfwald's death in 749, the Wuffinger dynasty died out . The kingdom was divided between Hunbeanna and Alberht . According to another opinion, Ælfwald was followed by the three ruling kings Hun , Beorna and Æthelberht I , of which only Beorna and Æthelberht are unequivocally proven as kings by coin finds.
No contemporary accounts of Beorna's life have come down to us. The archaeological finds were also sparse until the early 1980s when hoards from Middle Harling (Norfolk), Barham (Suffolk) and Burrow Hill (Suffolk) brought to light more than 50 Beorna coins. At least three mint masters , Efe, Werferth and Wilred, worked for Beorna. One of the mints was in Ipswich, which developed into a thriving trading center. In the year 758 only Beorna was mentioned as king. Beorna had its own coins minted up to around 760. Around this time the kingdom of East Anglia came under the rule of King Offa of Mercien . Æthelred I succeeded Beornas as king.
swell
- Symeon of Durham : Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum for the year 749
- John of Worcester : Chronicon
literature
- Philip Grierson , Mark Blackburn : Medieval European Coinage l. The Early Middle Ages (5th – 10th centuries) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0521031776 .
Web links
- Beorna in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Individual evidence
- ^ 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; see: Symeon of Durham : Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum for the year 749.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ A b Philip Grierson, Mark Blackburn : Medieval European Coinage l. The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th centuries) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0521031776 , pp. 277-278.
- ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 135.
- ↑ John of Worcester : Chronicon to the year 758
- ↑ John of Worcester : Chronicon
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ælfwald |
King of East Anglia together with Hun and Æthelberht I. 749 – around 760 |
Æthelred I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beorna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beonna; Beanna; Bynna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of East Anglia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century |