Saeward from Essex

Essex in the early Anglo-Saxon period

Saeward (also Sævvard ) († 617 ) was from 616 to 617 together with his brother Sexred King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex .

Life

Sæberht had three sons, Sexred , Saeward and another , whose name has not been passed down, who gave up the Christian faith after his death in 616/617 and ascended the throne together. Saeward and his brothers drove the London Bishop Mellitus out of Essex. However, there are no indications of general persecution of Christians , but rather the supremacy of Kent, whose king Æthelberht I had introduced Christianity in Essex in 604 and displaced pagan cults, should be removed . In 617 Saeward and his brothers fell in a battle against the West Saxon Gewissæ .

His son Sigeberht I succeeded the throne.

swell

Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)

literature

John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 26.
Nicholas J. Higham: The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England , Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997, ISBN 0-7190-4827-3 .

Web links

Kings of Essex (East Saxons) in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Beda: HE 2.5
^ Nicholas J. Higham: The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England , Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997, ISBN 0-7190-4827-3 , p. 135.
↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 26.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sæberht	King of Essex 616 / 617–617 together with Sexred and a third brother	Sigeberht I.

personal data
SURNAME	Saeward from Essex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sævvard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century
DATE OF DEATH	617

[he2-5-1] Beda: HE 2.5

[2] Nicholas J. Higham: The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England , Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997, ISBN 0-7190-4827-3 , p. 135.

[3] John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 26.