Ruler · 700 – 749

Ælfwald of East Anglia

Lived 700 – 749. King of East Anglia of Kingdom of East Anglia, 713 – 749.

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Lived: 700 – 749; 49 years
In office: 36 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of East Anglia
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of East Anglia

Kingdom of East Anglia · the 6th of 11 dated reigns · 600 – 890

2 before

Sigeberht of East Anglia629 – 634

Æthelhere of East Anglia654 – 655

Ealdwulf of East Anglia665 – 713

Ælfwald of East Anglia713 – 749

Alberht of East Anglia749 – 760

Beonna of East Anglia749 – 760

Æthelred I760 – 770

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 713 – 749 · 36 years · came to it aged 13

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 749, the year they died

The last king of the Wuffingas dynasty, Ælfwald succeeded his father Ealdwulf, who had ruled for 49 years. Ælfwald himself ruled for 36 years.

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