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Sigeberht of East Anglia (also known as Saint Sigebert), (Old English: Sigebryht) was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before his succession and the first to abdicate in order to ...
Dommoc (or Domnoc), a place not certainly identified but probably within the modern county of Suffolk, was the original seat of the Anglo-Saxon bishops of the Kingdom of East Anglia. It was established by Sigeberht of East Anglia for Saint Felix in c. 629–631. It remained the bishopric of all East Anglia until c. 673, when Theodore of Tarsus ...
In 869 a Danish army defeated and killed the last native East Anglian king, Edmund the Martyr. [3] The kingdom then fell into the hands of the Danes and eventually formed part of the Danelaw. [3] In 918 the East Anglian Danes accepted the overlordship of Edward the Elder of Wessex. East Anglia then became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England.
Sigeberht II, nicknamed the Good (Bonus) or the Blessed (Sanctus), [1] was King of the East Saxons (r. c . 653 to ? 660 x 661), in succession to his relative Sigeberht I the Little . Although a bishopric in Essex had been created under Mellitus , the kingdom had lapsed to paganism and it was in Sigeberht's reign that a systematic (re ...
Sigeberht the Good, a king of Essex (reigned c. 653–660) Sigeberht of East Anglia , saint and a king of the East Angles (reigned c. 629–c. 634) Sigeberht of Wessex , King of Wessex (reigned 756–757)
After 616, Rædwald, who ruled East Anglia during the first quarter of the seventh century, was the most powerful of the southern Anglo-Saxon kings. [1] In the following decades, from the reign of Sigeberht onwards, East Anglia became increasingly dominated by Mercia.
Upon his arrival in East Anglia, Sigeberht gave him a see at Dommoc, possibly at Walton, Suffolk near Felixstowe, or Dunwich in Suffolk. According to Bede, Felix helped Sigeberht to establish a school in his kingdom "where boys could be taught letters". [3] [4] Felix died on 8 March 647 or 648, having been bishop for 17 years.
The Venerable Bede mentions Cnobheresburg in Chapter 19, Book 3 of his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, where he relates that Saint Ultan joined the mission led by Saint Fursey which went from Ireland through British territory to East Anglia around 633 AD, to the kingdom of King Sigeberht of East Anglia. Bede describes the ...