Biography of Raedwald King East Anglia 570-624

Paternal Family Tree: Wuffingas

617 Battle of the River Idle

624 King Raedwald's Burial at Sutton Hoo

Around 570 Raedwald King East Anglia was born to Tytila King East Anglia.

Around 578 [his grandfather] Wuffa King East Anglia died. His son [his father] Tytila King East Anglia succeeded King East Anglia.

Around 599 Raedwald King East Anglia (age 29) succeeded King East Anglia.

Around 616 [his father] Tytila King East Anglia died.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 617. This year was Ethelfrith (age 45), king of the Northumbrians, slain by Redwald (age 47), king of the East-Angles; and Edwin (age 31), the son of Ella, having succeeded to the kingdom, subdued all Britain, except the men of Kent alone, and drove out the Ethelings, the sons of Ethelfrith (age 45), namely, Enfrid (age 27), Oswald (age 13), Oswy (age 5), Oslac, Oswood, Oslaf, and Offa.

Battle of the River Idle

In 617 Raedwald King East Anglia (age 47) and his son [his son] Raegenhere Wuffingas fought the Battle of the River Idle which took place at the River Idle Markham Moor Retford which forms the western border of the Isle of Lindsey [Map].

Raegenhere Wuffingas was killed.

Æthelfrith King Northumbrians (age 45) was killed. King Edwin of Northumbria (age 31) succeeded King Northumbria.

King Raedwald's Burial at Sutton Hoo

Around 624 Raedwald King East Anglia (age 54) died. He was probably buried at Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge. His son [his son] Eorpwald King East Anglia succeeded King East Anglia.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 827. This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night; and King Egbert (age 54), in the course of the same year, conquered the Mercian kingdom, and all that is south of the Humber, being the eighth king who was sovereign of all the British dominions. Ella, king of the South-Saxons, was the first who possessed so large a territory; the second was Ceawlin, king of the West-Saxons: the third was Ethelbert, King of Kent; the fourth was Redwald, king of the East-Angles; the fifth was Edwin, king of the Northumbrians; the sixth was Oswald, who succeeded him; the seventh was Oswy, the brother of Oswald; the eighth was Egbert, king of the West-Saxons (age 54). This same Egbert (age 54) led an army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, where they met him, and offered terms of obedience and subjection, on the acceptance of which they returned home.

[his son] Eorpwald King East Anglia was born to Raedwald King East Anglia.

[his son] Sigeberht Wuffingas was born to Raedwald King East Anglia.

[his son] Raegenhere Wuffingas was born to Raedwald King East Anglia.

Raedwald King East Anglia 570-624 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Wehha Wuffingas

Royal Descendants of Raedwald King East Anglia 570-624

Eorpwald King East Anglia x 1

Ancestors of Raedwald King East Anglia 570-624

Great x 1 Grandfather: Wehha Wuffingas

GrandFather: Wuffa King East Anglia

Father: Tytila King East Anglia

Raedwald King East Anglia