Eowa

Mercia and its neighboring empires in Eowa's time

Eowa (also Eawa, Eoba ; † August 5, 642 in the Battle of Maserfield ) was from about 635 to 642 king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia .

Life

Eowa was a son of King Pybba (593–606 / 615) from the Iclingas dynasty . His mother and wife are unknown. About his two sons Alweo and Osmod is only recorded that they were ancestors of the later kings Æthelbald (716-757) <, Offa and Ecgfrith .

Eowa's position as ruler is controversial among historians. Maybe was Penda , crowded around 635 by his brother Eowa (635? -642), who is considered by some historians as Northumbrian puppet king from his throne. Some historians consider it possible that Eowa was the dominant king in Mercia from around 635 to 642, ruling northern Mercia while Penda ruled only the southern areas. Other historians see Pendas as a fellow king in Eowa. No details have been reported about Eowa's reign.

In 642 attacked the Northumbrian king Oswald (634-642) Penda, who was allied with the Welsh king Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn von Powys , and fell on August 5th in the battle of Maserfield (probably near Oswestry ), near the Welsh border . The History Of The Britons and the Annales Cambriae following also Pendas brother Eowa fell in this battle. However, it is unclear whether Eowa fought in battle as a fellow king at the side of his brother Penda, or as a puppet king at the side of his "master" Oswald. After his death, Penda was the sole king of Mercias.

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anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , online in Project Gutenberg (English)
anonymous: Annales Cambriae , Annales Cambriae 447-954 in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
Nennius : Historia Brittonum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
Anglian Collection

literature

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)
Nicholas Brooks : Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1852851545 .
Frank M. Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England . 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-19-280139-2 .

Web links

Eoppa (Eowa, Offa) in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.

Individual evidence

^ Anglian Collection
↑ ^a ^b ^c Nicholas Brooks: Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1852851545 , The Kentish Origin Myth , pp. 72-74.
^ DP Kirby, The Earliest English Kings (1991, 2000), pp. 76f.
^ Nicholas Brooks: The Formation of the Mercian Kingdom . In S. Bassett, The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (1989), p. 166.
^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 112.
↑ Michelle Ziegler: The Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria ( Memento January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 642
↑ Nennius: Historia Brittonum 65
↑ Annales Cambriae to the year 644.

predecessor	Office	successor
Penda ?	King of Mercia around 635–642	Penda

personal data
SURNAME	Eowa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eawa, Eoba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Mercia
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 642
Place of death	Battle of Maserfield

[1] Anglian Collection

[nic72-2] Nicholas Brooks: Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1852851545 , The Kentish Origin Myth , pp. 72-74.

[3] DP Kirby, The Earliest English Kings (1991, 2000), pp. 76f.

[4] Nicholas Brooks: The Formation of the Mercian Kingdom . In S. Bassett, The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (1989), p. 166.

[babs112-5] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 112.

[michelle-6] Michelle Ziegler: The Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria ( Memento January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

[7] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 642

[8] Nennius: Historia Brittonum 65

[9] Annales Cambriae to the year 644.