Creoda of Mercia

Creoda (also Crioda, Cryda; fl. 6th century ) to have been the first known king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia allegedly.

Life

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle According Creoda was the son of Cynewald, the son of Cnebba, the son of Icel; after the latter is called the royal house of Mercia " Iclingas ". The early records of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however, were collected only at the end of the 9th century, and therefore the credibility of the early events is partly doubtful. The information about the early history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are therefore considered doubtful. That Creoda said to have been king of Mercia, is only in the Historia Anglorum of Henry of Huntingdon, written in the first half of the 12th century, claimed. The presumed death Creodas year, namely 593, however, appears to be based on a confusion, because in that year the death of a West Saxons called Creoda is specified.

Identification of Creoda with the listed in the so-called Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies Cretta, King of the Kingdom of Lindsey has also been adopted, but which must be noted that the reference to an original source of the king's house Mercia from Lindsey in contrast to the assumption the origins of the Mercian royal family lie in the southern Midlands, is. Several place names, which are derived from Creoda and his successors Pybba and Penda, point to an incipient to Creodas time anglische colonization in the south-western Mercia on the border only later evolving Kingdom Hwicce.

Swell

• The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle: MS C v. 5 Edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Brewer, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-8599-1491-7.
• Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum. Edited by Diana E. Greenway. Clarendon, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-1982-2224-6.