Ruler · 600 – 627

Eorpwald of East Anglia

Lived 600 – 627. King of East Anglia of Kingdom of East Anglia, 624 – 627.

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Lived: 600 – 627; 27 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of East Anglia
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of East Anglia

Kingdom of East Anglia · the 2nd of 11 dated reigns · 600 – 890

Rædwald of East Anglia600 – 624

Eorpwald of East Anglia624 – 627

Sigeberht of East Anglia629 – 634

Æthelhere of East Anglia654 – 655

Ealdwulf of East Anglia665 – 713

6 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 624 – 627 · 3 years · came to it aged 24

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: murder

Bede reported that soon after his conversion, Eorpwald was slain (occisus) by a heathen (uiro gentili) named Ricberht and that after he was killed, the kingdom reverted to heathen rule (in errore uersata est) for three years.

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