LC control no. | nb2011026540 |
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Personal name heading | Rædwald, King of East Anglia |
Variant(s) | Redwald, King of East Anglia Radwald, King of East Anglia |
Found in | The rune of ing, c2010: p. vii (King Radwald of the East Angles) Oxford DNB online, 6 Oct. 2011 (Rædwald or Redwald; King of the East Angles, died btw. 616 and 627; his life is documented in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; first recorded East Anglian King succeeding late 6th/early 7th cent.; thought by some to be buried in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo) Early peoples of Britain and Ireland, 2008: v. 2, p. 450 (Rædwald, d. c. 616-625; first king of East Anglia; according to Bede he was the fourth Bretwalda, succeeding Æthelberht, king of Kent; converted to Christianity but relapsed following the death of Æthelberht) The Blackwell encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, 1999: p. 385 (Rædwald, earliest king of the East Angles; believed to be the son of Tytil and the grandson of Wuffa; died c. 624) |