Person:Wehha of East Anglia (1)
Wehha Wilhelming
b.Abt 460 Scandinavia
d.Abt 571
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  • H.  Wehha WilhelmingAbt 460 - Abt 571
  1. King Wuffa of East AngliaAbt 495 - Abt 578
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Name Wehha Wilhelming
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 460 Scandinavia
Marriage to Unknown
Death[1] Abt 571
Reference Number? Q728080?


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Wehha is listed by Anglo-Saxon records as a king of the East Angles. If he existed, Wehha ruled the East Angles as a pagan king during the 6th century, at the time the region was being established as a kingdom by migrants arriving from what is now Frisia and the southern Jutland peninsula. Early sources identify him as a member of the Wuffingas dynasty, which was established around the east coast of Suffolk. Nothing of his reign is known.

According to the East Anglian tally from the Textus Roffensis, Wehha was the son of Wilhelm. The 9th century History of the Britons lists Wehha, named as 'Guillem Guercha', as the first king of the East Angles, as well as his son and heir Wuffa, after whom the dynasty was named. It has been claimed that the name Wehha is a hypocoristic version of Wihstān, from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. This claim, along with evidence from finds discovered at Sutton Hoo in 1939, suggests a connection between the Wuffingas and a Swedish dynasty, the Scylfings.

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  1. ↑ Wehha of East Anglia, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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