Icel (Mercia)
Icel (also Icil ) was the first king of the Anglish Kingdom of Mercia and ancestor of the Iclingas dynasty in the late 5th or early 6th century .
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Icel was a son of Eomer and traces the line of ancestry back to the deity Woden via the mythical hero Offa . Cnebba is named as Icel's son in the same source. Icel is considered to be the first of his family to move from fishing on the Cimbrian Peninsula to Britain and establish a rule there.
swell
- anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , online in Project Gutenberg (English)
- Æthelweard : Chronica
- Felix: Vita Sancti Guthlaci
literature
- Robin George Collingwood , John Nowell, Linton Myres: Roman Britain and English Settlements , Biblo & Tannen, 1998, ISBN 978-081961160-4 .
- 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)
- Michelle P. Brown, Carol Ann Farr (Eds.): Mercia. To Anglo-Saxon Kingdom In Europe . Continuum, 2005, ISBN 9780826477651 .
- Ian W. Walker: Mercia and the Making of England. Sutton, Stroud 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2131-5 .
Web links
- Icel in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Nicholas Brooks : Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1852851545 , p. 67.
- ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 626
- ^ Robin George Collingwood, John Nowell Linton Myres: Roman Britain and English Settlements , Biblo & Tannen, 1998, ISBN 978-0819611604 , pp. 416-417.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| - |
King of Mercia around 500 |
Cnebba |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Icel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Icil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Mercia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century |