Ealdwulf (East Anglia)

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Descent of Ælfwald in the Textus Roffensis

Ealdwulf (also: Ældƿulf, Aldwulf, Alduulf, Halduulf or Aldulfus ; † 713 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia from the Wuffinger dynasty from 663/664 to 713 .

family

Ealdwulf's parents were Æthelhere and Hereswitha. The Æthelric named in the Anglian collection as the father is probably just a misspelling for Æthelhere. The late 12th century Liber Eliensis named King Anna as his father. Also Florentius of Worcester handed in his chronicle of the 12th century distinctly different familial relationships, but are unlikely.

The couple had three children: the son and successor Ælfwald (713–749) and another son, Ælric, of whom nothing further is known. The daughter Ecgburh became abbess of Repton .

Life

Ealdwulf was a nephew of King Æthelwald , whose successor he was in 664. At that time, a plague raged across Britain that claimed numerous victims. Despite his nearly 50-year reign, hardly anything has come down to us.

In 673 his cousin Æthelthryth , the former wife of Ecgfriths of Northumbria, founded one of the most important monasteries in East Anglia in Ely with his support. When Bishop Bisi fell ill in 673 and could no longer exercise his office, the diocese was divided. In addition to Dommoc ( Dunwich ), where Bishop Acca officiated, the second East Anglian diocese in Elmham was established, led by Badwine. In 680, Ealdwulf of East Anglia took probably due to the of Theodore of Tarsus led synod of Hatfield part. A certificate issued there with the signature Alduulf rex ÆstrAnglorum ("Ealdwulf, King of the East Angels ") is a forgery. From around 685 East Anglia came under the increasingly strong domination of Mercia . In 709 Ealdwulf took on the Æthelbald who had fled Mercia and who was to become king of Mercia in 716. Ealdwulf died in 713. He was succeeded by his son Ælfwald.

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literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anglian collection
  2. ↑ EB Pryde, DE Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks) , Cambridge University Press, 1996 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-0-521- 56350-5 , p. 8.
  3. ↑ Janet Fairweather: Liber Eliensis . A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth, compiled by a Monk of Ely in the Twelfth Century , Boydell, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84383-015-3 , p. 14.
  4. ↑ 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 , pp. 396-397.
  5. ^ Richard Hoggett: The Archeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Anglo-Saxon Studies), Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-595-0 , p. 34.
  6. ↑ Sam Newton: The Origins of Beowulf: And the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia , Boydell & Brewer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-85991-472-7 , p. XIII.
  7. ↑ Beda: HE 3.27
  8. ^ John Godfrey: The Church in Anglo-Saxon England , Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-10904-8 , p. 160.
  9. ↑ Beda: HE 4,5
  10. ↑ p. 1428a
  11. ^ NJ Higham, The Kingdom of East Anglia , in: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Enzyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 154-155.
  12. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 63.
  13. ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0
predecessor Office successor
Æthelwald King of East Anglia
664–713 		Ælfwald
personal data
SURNAME Ealdwulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldwulf; Ældƿulf; Alduulf; Halduulf; Aldulfus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 713