Earpwald

Family: East Angles · Role: king · First appears: Book II · Chap. XV

Life events

c. 627 · Edwin persuaded Earpwald to abandon idolatry and receive the Christian faith.(Book II · Chap. XV)
- With: Edwin
- “Edwin was so zealous for the true worship, that he likewise persuaded Earpwald, king of the East Angles, and son of Redwald, to abandon his idolatrous superstitions, and with his whole province to receive the faith and mysteries of Christ.”
c. 627 · Ricbert killed Earpwald, ending his Christian reign.(Book II · Chap. XV)
- With: Ricbert
- “Earpwald, not long after he had embraced the Christian faith, was slain by one Ricbert, a pagan”
631 · Earpwald died, ending his rule over the East Angles.(Book III · Chap. XVIII)
- “after the death of Earpwald”

mentor: Edwin “Edwin was so zealous for the true worship, that he likewise persuaded Earpwald, king of the East Angles, and son of Redwald, to abandon his idolatrous superstitions, and with his whole province to receive the faith and mysteries of Christ.”
parent: Redwald “Edwin was so zealous for the true worship, that he likewise persuaded Earpwald, king of the East Angles, and son of Redwald, to abandon his idolatrous superstitions, and with his whole province to receive the faith and mysteries of Christ.”
with Ricbert (Ricbert slew Earpwald.) “Earpwald, not long after he had embraced the Christian faith, was slain by one Ricbert, a pagan;”
siblings with Sigbert “and from that time the province was in error for three years, till Sigbert succeeded to the kingdom, brother to the same Earpwald, a most Christian and learned man,”

siblings with Sigbert “the kingdom of the East Angles, after the death of Earpwald, the successor of Redwald, was governed by his brother Sigbert”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.