{"id":85,"date":"2014-01-23T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2024-09-26T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:41:14","slug":"wuffings-who-was-who","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuffings&#8217; Who was Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I have compiled annotated genealogical information on the Wuffings for the world-wide web, based on my research since 1983. The genealogy itself is based primarily on two sources:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; padding-left: 30px;\">1. the fourteen-generation pedigree of the Wuffing king \u00c6lfwald (c.713-749) preserved in the Anglian Collection of Old English royal genealogies (for a discussion of this important source and its relation to Old English heroic poetry, see my book, <em>The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia<\/em>, pp.57-64, 77-81, and the references there cited); and<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; padding-left: 30px;\">2. the allusions to the East Anglian royal family provided by the famous Northumbrian monk Bede in his early eighth-century <em>Historia Ecclesiastica<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The information is presented in three sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Section A: The Upper Reaches of the Wuffing Genealogy\" href=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/section-a-the-upper-reaches-of-the-wuffing-genealogy\/\">Section A<\/a> gives the order of names contained in the upper reaches of the genealogy, descending from the ancestral father-god Woden to the eponymous personification of the family totem, Wuffa, &#8216;Little Wolf&#8217;. Click here for Section A of the Wuffing Genealogy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Section B: The House of Wuffa down to the mid-eighth century\" href=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/section-b-the-house-of-wuffa-down-to-the-mid-eighth-century\/\">Section B<\/a> presents information on some of the more solidly historical Wuffings up to 749. All of the names in Section B are linked to individual pages summarizing what is known or can be deduced about these names and their bearers, with references.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"A Regnal List of the Later East Anglian Kings\" href=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/a-regnal-list-of-the-later-east-anglian-kings\/\">Section C<\/a> provides a Regnal List of the later Wuffing Kings, from the death of \u00c6lfwald [749] to the last of the famous Wuffings, St Edmund (20th Nov. 869). Click here for Section C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>or see below <\/strong><strong>the family tree up to the mid-eighth century<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-921\" src=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015.png\" alt=\"Wuffing Genealogy P \u00a9 Dr Sam Newton 2015\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015.png 1026w, https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Wuffing-Genealogy-P-\u00a9-Dr-Sam-Newton-2015-399x300.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I have compiled annotated genealogical information on the Wuffings for the world-wide web, based on my research since 1983. The genealogy itself is based primarily on two sources: 1. the fourteen-generation pedigree of the Wuffing king \u00c6lfwald (c.713-749) preserved <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}