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Personal data Pybba King of Mercia King of Mercia 

• He was born about 570 in Mercia, England.
• He was christened about 593.
• Profession: .

  {geni:job_title} Roi, de Mercie, 593

• He died about 606 in Mercia, England.
• A child of Creoda King of Mercia King of Mercia and Unknown Wife
• This information was last updated on October 1, 2011.

Household of Pybba King of Mercia King of Mercia

He is married to Unknown Wife.

They got married about 614.

Child(ren):

1. Elen Alcfrith ap Pebba  ± 594-± 694 

Notes about Pybba King of Mercia King of Mercia

Pybba of Mercia
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Pybba (570?–606/15) (also Pibba, Wibba, Wybba) was an early King of Mercia. He was the son of Creoda and father of Penda and Eowa.

His dates are sometimes given in genealogies as birth in 570, the beginning of his reign in 593, and death in either 606 or 615, but with no apparent evidence; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle just mentions him as father of Penda, with no further detail.

Pybba, who is said by the Historia Brittonum to have had 12 sons, is also said to have been succeeded by Cearl, of unknown relationship. His son Penda eventually became king; the Chronicle gives the date of this as 626, although Bede suggests it was not until after the battle of Hatfield Chase in 633.

Besides Penda and Eowa (who the author of the Historia Brittonum said were the sons of Pybba who were the best known to him), Pybba also apparently had a son named Coenwalh. Every king from Penda until Ceolwulf, who was deposed in 823, was said to be a descendant of Pybba, either through Penda, Eowa, or Coenwalh (perhaps excluding the short-lived Beornrad, whose background is unknown).
Preceded by
Creoda King of Mercia
c. 593 – 606 or 615 Succeeded by
Cearl

Anna of East Anglia
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Anna was a mid-7th century King of East Anglia. He was the nephew of Raedwald of East Anglia, and probably the second of the sons of Eni, Raedwald's brother, to hold the kingdom, ruling (c. 636–653/654).
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* 1 Family
* 2 Earlier life and faith
* 3 Emergence of Anna's rule
* 4 Patronage of Cenwalh of Wessex
* 5 Saint Hilda's visit to Anna's kingdom
* 6 Dynastic incorporation of Ely into East Anglia
* 7 Mercian assault on Cnobheresburg
* 8 King Anna's exile
* 9 Battle of Bulcamp, c 653
* 10 Burial place
* 11 Sources

[edit] Family

Anna is always referred to by this name, though it may be an abbreviated or familiar form of a diathematic name. He married before becoming king, some time before 630. His wife, whose name may have been Saewara, brought to the marriage a daughter from a previous union named Saethryth. The S-alliteration of these names suggests a link with the East Saxon dynasty, a connection which had probably been established earlier through the association of Sigeberht of East Anglia with the Wuffinga family. Anna had four known daughters, all canonised as saints, a process in which the family took an active part: Seaxburh of Ely (the eldest), Aethelthryth (also called Etheldreda or Audrey), Aethelburga and Wihtburga, and a son whose name is preserved as Jurmin, possibly a modification of Eormen. Jurmin was of warrior age in 653. Anna himself and all of his daughters became renowned for their saintly Christian virtues.

[edit] Earlier life and faith

Etheldreda's birth, in 631, is located at Exning, Suffolk, by tradition preserved at Ely (Liber Eliensis). Exning was an important place strategically, as it stood just on the East Anglian side of the Devil's Dyke, a major earthwork stretching between the Fen edge and the headwaters of the river Stour, built at an earlier date to defend the East Anglian region from attack from the direction of Cambridge or via the Icknield Way. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Exning reveals that it had distinguished occupants during the sixth century. Anna may therefore have been resident there in 631 in a defensive capacity, watching the border in case of assault from Mercia which was hostile to the newly-Christian rule of Sigeberht.

Anna was an extremely devout Christian. Liber Eliensis attributes the establishment of a church at Cratendune, Ely, to Saint Augustine of Canterbury (before 604). In 631 Saint Felix was just beginning his work in East Anglia, and he is associated with a foundation at Soham (Cambridgeshire), then a Fen Isle lying between Exning and Ely. Anna may therefore have experienced direct Christian teaching in this locality. M.R. James also mentions an oral legend that Etheldreda was baptised at Exning in a pool known as St Mindred's Well.

[edit] Emergence of Anna's rule

In 632-3 Edwin of Northumbria and his centre of Christian power in Northumbria was overthrown. Edwin was slain and Northumbria ravaged by Cadwallon ap Cadfan supported by the Mercian armies, and Edwin's family and bishop narrowly escaped to Kent. However King Oswald of Northumbria emerged to restore Northumbrian authority, and Saint Aidan was sent to Lindisfarne to bring the Irish mission to his court. This gave him independence both from the heathen cause of Mercia and the Roman ecclesiastical authority of Canterbury in Kent. At about the same time Saint Fursey came to East Anglia from Ireland.

The Mercians, led by Penda, then turned on East Anglia and slew Sigeberht and Ecgric, and routed the East Anglian army. Anna recovered East Anglian rule and must have relied upon the support of Oswald to sustain it. Felix remained his bishop at Dommoc until his death in c647. Anna arranged a very important diplomatic marriage between his daughter Seaxburh and King Eorcenberht of Kent (r. 640-664), cementing an alliance between the kingdoms. During the 640s Anna's daughter Aethelburga and stepdaughter Saethryth were sent to Faremoutiers Abbey in Gaul to live religious lives under abbess Fara. Probably in consequence of this a holy man named Botolph (Saint Botolph), reputedly a chaplain at Faremoutiers, was granted lands in c 647 for monastic use in East Anglia, but his work was delayed by conflicts in the kingdom.

[edit] Patronage of Cenwalh of Wessex

In 641 Oswald was slain by Penda in battle (probably at Oswestry, Shropshire), and Oswine of Northumbria succeeded him as king. Soon afterwards King Cenwalh of Wessex, whose sister was Oswald's widow, but was himself married to the sister of Penda, renounced his wife. In c644 Penda drove Cenwalh out of Wessex, and he took refuge with King Anna for three years. During that time he was converted to Christianity. This was probably through the teaching of Saint Felix, who according to William of Malmesbury baptised him, presumably with King Anna as his sponsor. Then with Anna's help he returned to rule Wessex as a Christian king in 647.

[edit] Saint Hilda's visit to Anna's kingdom

Also in 647 Hild (Saint Hilda), a grand-niece of King Edwin's who was baptised with him in 626 and had been encouraged by Saint Aidan, came to the East Anglian court intending to join her sister Hereswith. Hereswith had married AEthilric, brother of Anna (possibly Ecgric of East Anglia), but now a widow she had already left for a religious life in Gaul. Hild remained in East Anglia for a year, until recalled by Aidan to Northumbria to run the monastery at Hartlepool.

[edit] Dynastic incorporation of Ely into East Anglia

Anna strengthened the western extent of his kingdom through the marriage of his daughter Etheldreda to Tondberht, Prince of Ely or the South Gyrwae in the southern Fen, possibly in 651 or perhaps slightly later. At Ely Etheldreda had a minister named Owini, who later accompanied her to Northumbria during her second marriage. Tondberht died, and after this, Ely was always considered part of East Anglia. Thomas, a fenman, became Anna's second bishop at Dommoc c. 647-652. His religious education, like Anna's, may have been rooted in early foundations of Augustine or Felix in the Ely area.

[edit] Mercian assault on Cnobheresburg

Anna endowed Fursey's monastery at Cnobheresburg (possibly Burgh Castle) with rich buildings and objects. In time St Fursey, growing weary of attacks on the kingdom, followed one of his brothers into a hermitage, leaving the monastery at Cnobheresburg to his brother Foillan, and a year later went into Gaul. In 651 Penda struck again, attacking Foillan's monastery. Anna arrived on the scene with his force in time to hold them off while the monks escaped to Nivelles in Gaul by ship, but was himself defeated and driven into exile.

[edit] King Anna's exile

Anna possibly took refuge in the area of western Shropshire, the kingdom of Merewalh of the Magonsaetan. His friendship with Merewalh's family may account for the attachment of land-revenues from sites in Shropshire to the foundation of Iken, which commenced in 654. It may also explain the early conversion of Merewalh to Christianity, at or before the time of the Northumbrian mission to Mercia. Anna returned to East Anglia in c 653. By then Bishop Thomas had died, and Berhtgisl Boniface came from Kent as his successor. Anna's daughter Wihtburga was probably born in his last years.

[edit] Battle of Bulcamp, c 653

In c.653 Penda had set his son Peada as ruler of the Middle Angles, the province lying between north Oxfordshire, the river Trent to the north-west, and the Fen. Peada became Christian through his marriage to Alhflaed, daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria, and a mission was sent to the Middle Angles. Penda himself did not convert, but permitted Christian teaching in his kingdom. Soon afterwards the assault of 651 was repeated: Penda with his armies met Anna at Bulcamp near Blythburgh in Suffolk, and in a set battle defeated the East Anglian army and slew many of them, including Anna and his son Jurmin.

[edit] Burial place

Blythburgh a mile from Bulcamp was afterwards believed to be the place of that name where the tomb of Anna and Jurmin was pointed out and venerated. The identification is likely, because Blythburgh occupies a defensible position near the fordable headwaters of the Blyth estuary flowing towards the sea at Southwold, comparable to Rendlesham as a typical site for a royal dwelling of that period. Part of an 8th century whalebone diptych used for liturgical purposes has been found near the site.

Botolph began to build his monastery at Icanho (Iken, Suffolk) in the year that Anna was killed.

[edit] Sources

* Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
* Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, Ed. B. Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford 1969), iii.7,8,18,19; iv, 19.
* E.O. Blake (ed.), 1962, Liber Eliensis (Camden 3s, 92).
* M.R. James, Suffolk and Norfolk (London 1930).
* S. Plunkett, Suffolk in Anglo-Saxon Times (Tempus 2005).
* L. Webster and J. Backhouse, The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900 (London 1991)
* S.E. West, N.Scarfe and R.J. Cramp, 1984, 'Iken, St Botolph, and the Coming of East Anglian Christianity', Proc. Suffolk Inst of Archaeol 16.
* D. Whitelock, 1972, 'The Pre-Viking Age Church in East Anglia,'Anglo-Saxon England I.
* B. Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (London 1990).

English royalty
Preceded by
Ecgric King of East Anglia
c. 635 – c. 653 Succeeded by
Aethelhere

[3456] AUREJAC.GED file, de 0593 0596 Roi de Mercie

#Générale##Générale#Naissance : vers 545 ou plutôt vers 560
Profession : Roi de Mercie de 593 à 596.

{geni:occupation} Ruled c593-c606, Roi, de Mercie, 593, King of Mercia - see http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps17/ps17_216.htm

{geni:about_me} born: 559 or 570

died: 509 or 615

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B: UNKNOWN

D: abt 0606

S: Acceded in 593.

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ID: I102189

Name: PYBBA

Prefix: MIERCNA CUNING

Sex: M

Birth: 570 CE in , Mercia, England

Death: 606 CE 1

Event: MIERCNA CUNING Coronation 593 CE

Change Date: 14 Jan 2009 at 16:57

Father: CREODA b: Bef 555 CE

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Married:

Change Date: 14 Jan 2009

Children

COENWALH b: Bef 606 CE in , Mercia, England

HELEN MIERCNA b: 594 CE in , Mercia, England

PENDA MIERCNA b: Bef 606 CE

EOWA MIERCNA b: Bef 606 CE

Sources:

Abbrev: Sutton Folk Family Tree 3175463.ged

Title: Sutton Folk Family Tree

Sutton Folk Family Tree 3175463.ged

Author: Folk, Linda Sutton

Publication: www.worldconnect.rootsweb.com

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Pybba (?) (1)

M, #150344

Last Edited=27 Nov 2005

Children of Pybba (?)

-1. Eowa (?)+ d. 642 (1)

-2. Coenwalh (?)+ (1)

-3. unknown (?) (2)

-4. Penda, King of Mercia+ b. c 595, d. 15 Nov 655 (1)

Forrás / Source:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p15035.htm#i150344

REFN: 6633

SOURCE NOTES:
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal03032

RESEARCH NOTES:
King of Mercia (593-~606); children: Penda, Eowa, Coenwalh, & two daughters

SOURCE NOTES:
http://www.ghg.net/shetler/oldimp/230.html

RESEARCH NOTES:
King of East Anglia 635-654; Christian; enemy of the Mercian king Penda. In
654, he was slain by Penda in battle, and he was succeeded by first his
brother ’thelhere, then his other brother ’thelwald

Tillträdde 593

KING OF EAST ANGLIA

OR "WIBBA"; KING OF MERCIA 593-ca 606

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