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    Rædwald (Old English: Rædwald, pronounced [ˈrædwɑɫd]; 'power in counsel'), also written as Raedwald or Redwald (Latin: Raedwaldus, Reduald), (died c....
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    During the early 7th century under Rædwald, East Anglia was a powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Rædwald, the first East Anglian king to be baptised a Christian...
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  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which was completed in the 730s. Sigeberht was probably either a younger son of Rædwald of East Anglia, or his step-son...
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  • Christian kings. He was a nephew of Rædwald, who was the first of the Wuffingas of which more than a name is known. Rædwald and his son Eorpwald both ruled...
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    assassinated c. 627 or 632), succeeded his father Rædwald as King of the East Angles. Eorpwald was a member of the East Anglian dynasty known as the Wuffingas,...
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  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Ricberht murdered Eorpwald of East Anglia in about 627, shortly after Eorpwald succeeded his father Rædwald as king and...
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  • years that followed the reign of Rædwald and the murder of Rædwald's son and successor Eorpwald in around 627, East Anglia lost its dominance over other...
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  • under the protection of Rædwald in East Anglia. Æthelfrith sent messengers to Rædwald asking him to kill Edwin. Rædwald did not comply, and instead, he raised...
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  • of the Frankish Empire. Æthelberht of Kent was the first king to accept baptism, circa 601. He was followed by Saebert of Essex and Rædwald of East Anglia...
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  • Æthelwold was the last of the nephews of Rædwald to rule East Anglia. He died in 664 and was succeeded by Ealdwulf, the son of his brother Æthelric. Few...
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  • was a semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia, a small Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Early sources...
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    Tyttla and the brother of Rædwald, who both ruled East Anglia. There is no historical evidence that Eni ever ruled the East Angles. The principal references...
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  • Wehha of East Anglia is listed by Anglo-Saxon records as a king of the East Angles. If he existed, Wehha ruled the East Angles as a pagan king during...
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    king of East Anglia. If historical, he would have flourished in the 6th century. By tradition Wuffa was named as the son of Wehha and the father of Tytila...
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  • Aldulf or Adulf, was king of East Anglia from c. 664 to 713. He was the son of Hereswitha, a Northumbrian princess, and of Æthilric (d. before c. 664)...
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    saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Little is known of his reign, which...
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    nephew of Rædwald, king of the East Angles from 600 to 625. East Anglia was an early and long-lived Anglo-Saxon kingdom in which a duality of a northern...
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  • Hoo site in England, widely identified with the 7th-century king Rædwald of East Anglia. Guitarist and keyboardist Ivar Bjørnson was 15 years old when Vikingligr...
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    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...
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  • 835 – c. 890) was King of East Anglia in the late 9th century. Originally a native of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the "Great Summer Army" that...
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  • name of the son of king Rædwald of East-Anglia). The name also existed among the Franks as "Ragnahar" (recorded as Ragnachar in the book "History of the...
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    Sutton Hoo helmet (category Military history of Suffolk)
    control of East Anglia to Rædwald. "Bede's Magnificent Seven", as Keynes terms them, were Ælle of Sussex, Ceawlin of Wessex, Æthelberht of Kent, Rædwald, Edwin...
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  • Hereswith (category Year of death unknown)
    Rædwald resolved on war. Rædwald defeated Æthelfrith at The Battle of the River Idle. With Æthelfrith defeated, Rædwald installed Edwin as king of Northumbria...
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    Eadwald of East Anglia was an obscure king of the small Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia (Old English: Ēast Engla Rīce) from around the year 796 to...
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    Through the influence of Æthelberht, his nephew Sæberht of Essex also converted, as did Rædwald of East Anglia, although Rædwald also retained an altar...
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    aspect of the cultural and political development of the East from the preeminence of Caesaropapism and Eastern Christianity to the spread of the Cyrillic...
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    reference is Bede's account of the overthrow of the Northumbrian Æthelfrith by Rædwald overlord of the southern English. Rædwald raised a large army, presumably...
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    East Anglia is an area in the East of England. It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Cambridgeshire and Essex also included in some definitions...
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  • Edith Pretty (category Archaeology of the kingdom of East Anglia)
    of King Rædwald of East Anglia. A curator of the British Museum described the discovery as "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all...
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    connection central to the understanding of both. The Sutton Hoo burial is often associated with King Rædwald of East Anglia, (ruled c 599-624), who in his later...
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