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The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, the area still known as East Anglia.
Æthelberht ( Old English: Æðelbrihte, ÆÞelberhte ), also called Saint Ethelbert the King (c. 774 – 20 May 794) was an 8th-century 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 may have begun in 779, according to later sources ...
Ruled Mercia from 796 to 821: [9] held dominion over the East Angles after Eadwald's brief reign; [21] no precise date is known for the start of his overlordship in East Anglia. [22] Ceolwulf. Brother of Coenwulf; ruled Mercia from 821 to 823. [23] Beornwulf. Of unknown origin; [24] Ruled Mercia from 823.
Website. www .mustfarm .com. Must Farm is a Bronze Age archeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river and built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts.
The first Earl of East Anglia was Thorkell the Tall, appointed in 1017. Thorkell and his family were outlawed by Canute in 1021, only to be pardoned again in 1023. His immediate successors are unknown. The native English dynasty was restored with the accession of King Edward the Confessor in 1042. During his reign East Anglia, smaller than the ...
East of England. East Anglia is an area in the East of England. [1] It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, with Essex also included in some definitions. [2] [3] The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in what is now Northern Germany .
Anglian collection. Lineage of East Anglian king Ælfwald from the Textus Roffensis, version R of the Anglian Collection. The Anglian collection is a collection of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies and regnal lists. These survive in four manuscripts; two of which now reside in the British Library.
Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793 ...