Eadwald (East Anglia)

Eadwald's coin

Eadwald (also: Edwald or Eadvald ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia from 796 to around 800 .

Life

No contemporary accounts of Eadwald's life have come down to us. He is only known for around 20 coins that bear his name. Eadwald's predecessor, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia, was beheaded in 794 on the orders of King Offa of Mercia . Offa took over the rule himself, but died in 796. Eadwald took advantage of Mercia's weakness and ruled over at least parts of East Anglia. Probably around 800 Eadwald was driven out by the Mercian king Cenwulf .

literature

• Philip Grierson , Mark Blackburn : Medieval European Coinage 1. The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th centuries) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 (paperback), ISBN 978-0521031776 .

Web links

• Eadwald in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philip Grierson, Mark Blackburn : Medieval European Coinage 1. The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th centuries) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 (paperback), ISBN 978-0521031776 , p. 269.
2. ^ Paul Antony Hayward: Æthelberht ; In: 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. 13.
3. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 792
4. ^ Philip Grierson, Mark Blackburn : Medieval European Coinage 1. The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th centuries) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 (paperback), ISBN 978-0521031776 , p. 293.
5. ^ Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 64. PDF (6.2 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Æthelberht II.	King of East Anglia 796 – about 800?	under the rule of the kings of Mercia