Glappa

Northern Britain in the 6th century

Glappa (also: Clappa ) (before 559; † 560 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia from 559 until his death in 560 .

One of the few sources on Glappa is the Moore Memoranda from around 737, in which Glappa was named between the kings Ida and Adda with a year-long reign as King Bernicias. Details of his life and rule are unknown. In older research, Glappa was sometimes seen as the son of King Ida of Bernicia.

literature

• Simon Keynes: Kings of Northumbria . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
• DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Unwin Hyman, London 1991, ISBN 0-0444-5691-3 .

Web links

• Glappa 1 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of Northumbria . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 502-505.
2. ^ Nicholas J. Higham: (Re) reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context , Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-35368-7 , pp. 200-201.
3. ^ William Hunt :  Ida . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 28:  Howard - Inglethorpe. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1891, pp. 411 - 412 (English ,, (partly outdated state of research)).

predecessor	Office	successor
Ida	King of Bernicia 559-560	Adda