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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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  • The Battle of the River Idle was a major victory for Rædwald of East Anglia over Æthelfrith of Northumbria in 616 in what is now Nottinghamshire. Æthelfrith...
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    the protection of king Rædwald. Bede reports that Æthelfrith tried to have Rædwald murder his unwanted rival, and that Rædwald intended to do so until...
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  • Sigeberht was probably either a younger son of Rædwald of East Anglia, or his step-son from Rædwald's marriage to a pagan princess from the kingdom of...
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    of the overthrow of the Northumbrian Æthelfrith by Rædwald overlord of the southern English. Rædwald raised a large army, presumably from among the kings...
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    in East Anglia, under the protection of its king, Rædwald. Æthelfrith sent messengers to bribe Rædwald with "a great sum of money" into killing Edwin; Bede...
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    Wuffa. During the early 7th century under Rædwald, East Anglia was a powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Rædwald, the first East Anglian king to be baptised...
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    (reigned from c. 624, assassinated c. 627 or 632), succeeded his father Rædwald as King of the East Angles. Eorpwald was a member of the East Anglian dynasty...
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  • to accept baptism, circa 601. He was followed by Saebert of Essex and Rædwald of East Anglia in 604. However, when Æthelberht and Saebert died, in 616...
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    627. Rædwald Son of Tytila; named imperium by Bede, later interpreted as Bretwalda. The Flores Historiarum gives 599 for Rædwald's accession. Rædwald is...
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     620–625 CE and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary...
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  • in around 731 AD. In the years that followed the reign of Rædwald and the murder of Rædwald's son and successor Eorpwald in around 627, East Anglia lost...
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    East Anglian king. Nothing is known of the members of the dynasty before Rædwald, who ruled from about 599 to c.624. The Viking invasions of the 9th century...
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  • mediaeval sources recorded that in about 616, Tytila was succeeded by his son Rædwald. The peoples known to us as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians, began...
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    archaeological parallels to some of the Sutton Hoo finds. Scholars believe Rædwald, king of the East Angles, is the most likely person to have been buried...
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  • led by its pagan king, Penda. Æthelwold was the last of the nephews of Rædwald to rule East Anglia. He died in 664 and was succeeded by Ealdwulf, the...
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  • 7th-century Saxon ship, which may have been the last resting-place of King Rædwald of East Anglia. A curator of the British Museum described the discovery...
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  • Chronicles. London: H.G. Bohn. OCLC 1084819059. Hoops, Johannes (2003). "Rædwald". Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde (in English and German)....
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    Replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet; the original was buried with an Anglo-Saxon leader, probably King Rædwald of East Anglia, c. 620–625 CE....
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    Islands stay a part of the Byzantine Empire. Eorpwald succeeds his father Rædwald, as king (bretwalda) of the independent Kingdom of East Anglia (approximate...
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  • English People, it was a powerful kingdom ruled by Rædwald (died about 624). According to Bede, Rædwald was recognised as exercising dominance or imperium...
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    victory over the rival kingdom of Northumbria around 616, and its King Rædwald was Bretwalda (overlord of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms). However, this did...
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  • ambassadors had gone, Rædwald resolved on war. Rædwald defeated Æthelfrith at The Battle of the River Idle. With Æthelfrith defeated, Rædwald installed Edwin...
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    ruled the East Angles around 575. Bede named Wuffa as the grandfather of Rædwald, "from whom the East Anglian kings are called Wuffingas", but Bede's view...
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  • v t e Monarchs of East Anglia Wehha Wuffa Tytila Rædwald Eorpwald Ricberht Sigeberht [c] Ecgric [c] Anna Æthelhere Æthelwold Ealdwulf Ælfwald Beonna [c]...
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    two kingdoms (united as Northumbria) until he was defeated and killed by Rædwald of East Anglia (who had given refuge to Edwin, son of Ælle, king of Deira)...
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  • Sutton Hoo site in England, widely identified with the 7th-century king Rædwald of East Anglia. Guitarist and keyboardist Ivar Bjørnson was 15 years old...
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    Kingdom of East Anglia, its early imported wares dating to the time of King Rædwald, ruler of the East Angles (616–624). The famous ship-burial and treasure...
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    King Rædwald of the East Angles in order to claim both kingdoms, but Edwin returned in approximately 616 to conquer Northumbria with Rædwald's aid. Edwin...
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    they learn the teaching of evangelism in the Visigothic Kingdom. King Rædwald of East Anglia conquers Northumbria (Northern England) at the Battle of...
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