Anna
Family: East Angles · Role: king · First appears: Book III · Chap. VII
In 631, Anna, son of Eni and of the royal blood, succeeded to the kingdom of the East Angles. He was described as “a good man, and the father of good children,” but was later slain by Penda, the pagan Mercian chief. Around 633, Coinwalch lived with Anna for three years in banishment, where he learned and received the true faith under Anna’s influence.
Around 644, at Cnobheresburg, Anna and certain nobles embellished Fursa’s monastery with grander buildings and gifts. Anna was the father of Ethelberg, Sexburg, and Ethelthryth; Sexburg was the elder daughter and became wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, while Ethelthryth later married Egfrid. Saethryth was the daughter of Anna’s wife, and Ethelwald and Ethelhere were Anna’s brothers, with Ethelhere succeeding him.
Relationship record
Life events
- 631 · Anna succeeded to the kingdom as Eni's son.(Book III · Chap. XVIII)
- With: Eni
- “They were succeeded in the kingdom by Anna, the son of Eni”
- 631 · Anna was slain by the same pagan Mercian chief, Penda.(Book III · Chap. XVIII)
- With: Penda
- “He also was afterwards slain like his predecessors by the same pagan chief of the Mercians”
- c. 633 · Coinwalch learned and received the true faith while exiled with Anna.(Book III · Chap. VII)
- With: Coinwalch
- “where he lived three years in banishment, and learned and received the true faith”
- c. 644 · Anna embellished Fursa’s monastery with grander buildings and gifts.(Book III · Chap. XIX · 📍 Cnobheresburg)
- “afterwards, Anna, king of that province, and certain of the nobles, embellished it with more stately buildings and with gifts.”
Book III · Chap. VII
- with Coinwalch (interaction) “and withdrew to Anna, king of the East Angles, where he lived three years in banishment”
- pupil: Coinwalch “and learned and received the true faith; for the king, with whom he lived in his banishment, was a good man, and happy in a good and saintly offspring”
- with Coinwalch (interaction) “and withdrew to Anna, king of the East Angles, where he lived three years in banishment”
Book III · Chap. VIII
- child: Ethelberg, daughter of Anna “Among whom was also Saethryth, daughter of the wife of Anna, king of the East Angles, above mentioned; and Ethelberg, the king’s own daughter”
- child: Sexburg “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
Book III · Chap. XVIII
- enemies with Penda “They were succeeded in the kingdom by Anna, the son of Eni, of the blood royal, a good man, and the father of good children, of whom, in the proper place, we shall speak hereafter. He also was afterwards slain like his predecessors by the same pagan chief of the Mercians.”
- parent: Eni “They were succeeded in the kingdom by Anna, the son of Eni, of the blood royal, a good man”
Book III · Chap. XIX
- protégé: Fursa “afterwards, Anna, king of that province, and certain of the nobles, embellished it with more stately buildings and with gifts.”
Book III · Chap. XXII
- siblings with Ethelwald “Ethelwald, king of the East Angles, brother to Anna, king of the same people”
Book III · Chap. XXIV
- siblings with Ethelhere “among whom was Ethelhere, brother and successor to Anna, king of the East Angles.”
Book IV · Chap. XIX
- child: Ethelthryth “King Egfrid took to wife Ethelthryth, the daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.