Pybba

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Pybba (also Pibba, Pypba, Pubba, Wibba ; * around 570, † around 606 (615?)) Was an early king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia from the Iclingas dynasty . The years 593–606 (615?) Are considered to be the reign.

Pybba is said to have been the son and successor of King Creoda , although this claim seems to be based on a mix-up, since the death of a West Saxon named Creoda is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 593 . Pybba is said to have had twelve sons, including Penda , the future king. The descendants of his sons Cenwalh and Eowa († 642) later also became kings of Mercias. A daughter not named was married to Cenwalh (642–672 / 673), the king of the Gewissæ . Another daughter, from a second marriage to a princess of Gewissæ, is said to have been married to Cadwallon ap Cadfan , the Welsh king of Gwynedd . His direct successor Ceorl was also evidently a relative, without the exact relationship being known.

Several place names derived from Creoda and his successors Pybba and Penda indicate an Anglic colonization in southwestern Mercia on the border with the later developing kingdom of Hwicce that began in Creoda's time .

literature

  • Steven Basset (Ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
  • Michelle P. Brown & Carol A. Farr (Eds.): Mercia. To Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe . Leicester University Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7185-0231-0 .
  • David Dumville: The Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists . In: Anglo Saxon England 5 (1976), p. 23-50
  • Frank M. Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England , 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-1928-0139-2 .
  • 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)
  • Barbara Yorke: The Origins of Mercia . In: Michelle P. Brown & Carol A. Farr (Eds.): Mercia. To Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe . Leicester University Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7185-0231-0 . p. 13-22

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASC , see 593
  2. ^ W. Davies, Annals and the Origin of Mercia , p. 23
  3. ↑ Nennius: Historia Brittonum 60
  4. ^ D. Dumville, The Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists , p.37
  5. ^ Anglian Collection
  6. ↑ Beda: HE 3.7
  7. ↑ Jane Williams: A History of Wales: Derived from Authentic Sources . Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-110802085-5 , p. 104. cf. Geoffrey of Monmouth : History of the Kings of Britain , 12:14
  8. ^ FM Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England , p. 38
  9. ^ Nicholas Brooks : Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 . Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85285-154-5 , pp. 68-69.
predecessor Office successor
Creoda King of Mercia
593–606 / 615 		Ceorl
personal data
SURNAME Pybba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pibba; Pypba; Pubba; Wibba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Mercia
DATE OF BIRTH around 570
DATE OF DEATH at 606 or at 615