Wuffa (died c. 578) was king of East Anglia from 571 to 578. He was the father of King Tytila and grandfather of King Rædwald of the Sutton Hoo ship burial. His name, which is a diminutive form of the Old English word for wolf, is the dynastic eponym for the kings of East Anglia, the Wuffings. The Kingdom of the East Angles (one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy) was founded in the 6th century. ... Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ... Sutton Hoo parade helmet (British Museum, restored). ... The Wuffings were the ruling dynasty of East Anglia. ...
EastAnglia, geographical region and historical kingdom of eastern England.
In its historical association, EastAnglia was one of the smallest of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, founded by the Angles in about ad 525, and corresponding more or less to the area referred to by that name today.
The Venerable Bede, the Northumbrian scholar, wrote of the rulers of this easterly kingdom as “Wuffingas”, from Wuffa, grandfather of King Raedwald (died c.
EastAnglia was subject to the supremacy of the Mercian kings until 825, when its people slew Beornwulf of Mercia, and with their king acknowledged Ecgberht (Egbert) of Wessex as their lord.
In 870 Edmund, king of EastAnglia, was killed by the Danes under I'varr and Ubbi, the sons of Ragnar Lol brok.
After the death of Ragnar LObrok's sons EastAnglia was occupied by the Danish king Guthrum, who made a treaty with Alfred settling their respective boundaries, probably about 880.
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