No East Anglian charters (or other documents) have survived to modern times; though other mediaeval chronicles that refer to the East Angles are treated with great caution by scholars. This was due to the complete destruction of the kingdom's monasteries and the disappearance of the two East Anglian sees as the result of Viking raids and settlement. The principal documentary source for the early period of the kingdom's history is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written by Bede in the eighth century. East Anglia is first mentioned as a distinct political unit in the Tribal Hidage, which is thought to have been compiled somewhere in England during the seventh century. Other Anglo-Saxon sources containing information about the kingdom of East Anglia are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (commissioned in the reign of Alfred the Great), Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons) attributed to Nennius and Life of Foillan, a seventh century Irish Saint. After the occupation of the vikings, the Kingdom of East Anglia became a principality of the Kingdom of Wessex. They eventually amalgamated into the other Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and henceforth became known as the Kingdom of England, ruled by a Wessex Monarch.
Kingdom of East Anglia Monarchs
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Dynasty
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Reign: A.D
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Ruler
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Notes
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Wuffingas
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Unknown.
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Wehha
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Possible ruler; "The first to rule over the East Angles", according to Nennius.
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Wuffingas
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571 (origin is from unknown annal)
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Wuffa
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Possible ruler; son of Wehha and the king after whom the Wuffingas dynasty is named.
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Wuffingas
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578 (origin is from unknown annal)
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Tytila
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Possible ruler; son of 'Uffa' (Wuffa); acceded in 578, according to the Flores Historiarum.
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Wuffingas
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c. 599 to c. 624.
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Rædwald
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Son of Tytila; named imperium by Bede, later interpreted as Bretwalda. The Flores Historiarum gives 599 for Rædwald's accession. Rædwald is the first of the Wuffingas of which more than a name is known and is the first East Anglian king to convert to christianity.
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Wuffingas
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c. 624 to c. 627 or 628
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Eorpwald
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Son of Rædwald; murdered by Ricberht. First king to be killed of his christian faith.
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Unknown but is more likely to be a pagan noble
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c. 627 to c. 630
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Ricberht
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Possible ruler of 3 years.
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Wuffingas
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c. 630 to c. 634
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Sigeberht
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He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism. Eventually abdicated to lead a monastic life; later slain in battle.
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Wuffingas
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c. 630 to c. 636 (ruled jointly with Sigeberht until c. 634)
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Ecgric
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Slain in battle, possibly as late as 641; kinsman of Sigeberht.
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Wuffingas
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c. 636 or early 640s to c. 653
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Anna
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Nephew of Rædwald and son of Eni; killed, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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Wuffingas
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c. 653 to 655
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Æthelhere
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Brother of Anna. Slain at the Battle of the Winwaed. (second son of Eni)
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Wuffingas
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c. 655 to 663
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Æthelwold
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Brother of Anna. (third son of Eni)
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Wuffingas
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663 to c. 713
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Ealdwulf
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Nephew of Anna, Æthelhere and Æthelwold; Son of Æthilric.
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Wuffingas
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713 to 749
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Ælfwald
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Son of Ealdwulf. Last king of the Wuffingas dynasty.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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Beonna crowned in 749 and around 760 jointly wilt Alberht and possibly Hun
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Beonna, Alberht and possibly Hun
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Joint kings, of unknown origin. Alberht is also known as Æthelberht I. Nothing is known of Hun.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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Unknown
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Æthelred I
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Possibly succeeded Beonna; sub-king to Offa of Mercia. Father of Æthelberht II.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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779? to 794
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Æthelberht II
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The ability of Æthelberht to mint his own coins suggest East Anglia was a independent kingdom. Executed at the command of Offa and was subsequently canonised.
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Iclingas Dynasty (Mercian)
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Offa
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Ruled Mercia from 757 to July 796; jointly ruled with his son Ecgfrith from 787 (who succeeded him and died after ruling for less than five months). Held dominion over the East Angles.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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c. 796 to c. 798
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Eadwald
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Ancestry unknown; emerged as king during a period of instability following the death of Offa.
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C-dynasty (Mercian)
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Cœnwulf
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Ruled Mercia from 796 to 821: held dominion over the East Angles after Eadwald's brief reign; no precise date is known for the start of his overlordship in East Anglia.
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C-dynasty (Mercian)
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Ceolwulf
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Brother of Coenwulf; ruled Mercia from 821 to 823. Deposed by Beornwulf.
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B-dynasty (Mercian)
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Beornwulf
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Of unknown origin; Ruled Mercia from 823. to 826; killed during an East Anglian revolt.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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827 to c. 846
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Æthelstan
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May have led a revolt against the Mercians in 825. East Anglian independence re-established at his accession.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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c. 846 to 854
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Æthelweard
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Surviving coinage suggests that he was the ruler of an independent East Anglai and not subjected to Merica or Wessex.
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East Anglian Dynasty
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855 (traditonally) to 869
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Edmund (Eadmund)
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The last native East Anglian king; acceded at the age of 14 (according to Asser); killed by the Vikings 20 November 869; canonised. Political organisation of East Anglia following the death of Edmund is uncertain.
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Kings under Norse suzerainty
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c. 870's
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Oswald
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Sub-king, known only from numismatic evidence.
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Kings under Norse suzerainty
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c. 870's
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Æthelred II
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Sub-king, known only from numismatic evidence.
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Danish Kingdom of East Anglia
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c. 879 to 890
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Guthrum
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East Anglia was awarded to him in 879 as part of a peace settlement with Alfred the Great of Wessex.
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Danish Kingdom of East Anglia
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Ruled until 902
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Eohric
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Killed in battle (along with Æthelwold) in December 902.
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House of Wessex
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902
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Æthelwold
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Sub-king of the Danes; killed in battle December 902. Is Alfred the Great's Nephew, had claimed the Wessex throne after Alfred's death.
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Danish Kingdom of East Anglia
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902 to 918
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Guthrum II
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Killed in battle 918.
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