Creoda

Britain around 600

Creoda (also Crioda, Cryda ; fl. 6th century) is said to have been the first known king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia .

Life

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , according Creoda of Mercia was the son of Cynewald , the son of Cnebba , the son of Icel ; after the latter, the royal house of Mercia is called " Iclingas ". The early entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however, were only compiled towards the end of the 9th century, which is why the credibility of the early events is sometimes doubtful. The information about the early history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are therefore dubious. That Creoda was supposed to have been King of Mercia is only asserted in the Historia Anglorum by Henry of Huntingdon , written in the first half of the 12th century. The assumed year of Creoda's death, namely 593, seems to be based on a mix-up, since the death of a West Saxon named Creoda is given for that year .

An identification of Creoda with Cretta, King of the Kingdom of Lindsey listed in the so-called Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies , has also been assumed, although it must be noted that the reference to an original origin of the Mercias royal family from Lindsey is contrary to the assumption that the origins of the mercian royal family were in the southern Midlands . Several place names derived from Creoda and his successors Pybba and Penda indicate an Anglic colonization in southwestern Mercia on the border with the later developing kingdom of Hwicce that began in Creoda's time .

swell

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: MS C v. 5 . Edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Brewer, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-8599-1491-7 .
• Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum. Edited by Diana E. Greenway. Clarendon, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-1982-2224-6 .

literature

• Steven Basset (Ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
• Nicholas Brooks: The Formation of the Mercian Kingdom . In: Steven Basset (ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms , Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
• Michelle P. Brown & Carol A. Farr (Eds.): Mercia. To Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe . Leicester University Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7185-0231-0 .
• James Campbell et al. (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons . Phaidon, London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .
• DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings . Unwin Hyman, London 1991, ISBN 0-0444-5691-3 .
• Wendy Davies: Annals and the Origins of Mercia . In: Ann Dornier: Mercian Studies. Leicester University Press, Leicester 1977, ISBN 0-7185-1148-4 .
• Ann Dornier: Mercian Studies . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1977, ISBN 0-7185-1148-4 .
• David Dumville: The Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists . In: Anglo Saxon England 5 (1976), pp. 23-50
• Frank M. Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England , 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-1928-0139-2 .
• Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 .
• Barbara Yorke: The Origins of Mercia . In: Michelle P. Brown & Carol A. Farr (Eds.): Mercia. To Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe . Leicester University Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7185-0231-0 , pp. 13-22

Web links

• Creoda in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Creoda in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.

Remarks

1. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( ASC ) C, s. a. 626
2. ↑ HA , II, 26
3. ↑ ASC C , see 593
4. ^ W. Davies, Annals and the Origin of Mercia , p. 23; B. Yorke: The Origins of Mercia , p. 18
5. ^ D. Dumville, The Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists , pp. 23-50
6. ^ FM Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England , p. 42
7. ^ Nicholas Brooks: Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 . Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85285-154-5 , pp. 68-69.

predecessor	Office	successor
---	King of Mercien 585-593	Pybba