Æthelred I of East Anglia

Æthelred I ( also: Aethelred or Ethelred ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia in the second half of the 8th century.

Life

To Æthelreds life no contemporary reports were handed down. It was only in the 12th century, his name appeared in the English historian William of Malmesbury in a list of kings of East Anglia. According to Richard of Cirencester, a monk and historian of the late 14th century, Æthelred was with Leofruna (also Leoveromia ), a woman from Mercia, with whom he had the son Aethelberht II, married. Æthelred I probably succeeded to 760 the reigning kings together Beorna, Aethelberht I. and Hun on the throne. The king was sitting in Beodricesworth ( Bury St Edmunds ). Æthelreds year of death is unknown, but is usually set before or around 790.

Swell

William of Malmesbury: Chronicle of the kings of England in Google Books