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Edmund, king of the East Angles, who was killed during the invasion of his kingdom by the Great Heathen Army. The Kingdom of East Anglia, also known as the Kingdom of the East Angles, was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of The Fens.
The Kingdom of East Anglia was organised in the first or second quarter of the 6th century, with Wehha listed as the first king of the East Angles, followed by Wuffa. [1] The Anglo-Saxon genealogy for East Angles gives Wehha as descended from Woden via Caesar. Until 749 the kings of East Anglia were
Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) [note 1] was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death. Few historical facts about Edmund are known, as the kingdom of East Anglia was devastated by the Vikings , who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign.
Ælfwald (Old English: Alfƿold, "elf-ruler," reigned from 713 to 749) was an 8th-century king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The last king of the Wuffingas dynasty, Ælfwald succeeded his father Ealdwulf, who had ruled for 49 years. Ælfwald himself ruled for 36 years.
The historian Barbara Yorke argues that East Anglia almost certainly produced a similar range of written materials, but they were destroyed during the Viking conquest in the 9th century. [4] Rædwald is the first king of the East Angles of whom more than a name is known, though no details of his life before his accession are known. [5]
Oswald was king of East Anglia, present-day England in the 870s after the death of Edmund the Martyr. No textual evidence of his reign is known, but coins inscribed with his name are known. No textual evidence of his reign is known, but coins inscribed with his name are known.
Anna (or Onna; killed 653 or 654) was king of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. He was a member of the Wuffingas family, the ruling dynasty of the East Angles, and one of the three sons of Eni who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia, succeeding some time after Ecgric was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia.
Anna of East Anglia; B. Beonna of East Anglia; C. Coenwulf of Mercia; E. Eadwald of East Anglia; Ealdwulf of East Anglia; Ecgric of East Anglia; Edmund the Martyr;