{"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\/wuffings-who-was-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuffings’ Who was Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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, 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

2. the allusions to the East Anglian royal family provided by the famous Northumbrian monk Bede in his early eighth-century Historia Ecclesiastica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The information is presented in three sections:<\/p>\n