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Eadwald of East Anglia
Eadwald of East Anglia was an obscure king of the small Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, from around 796 to 798. He lived at a time when East Anglia was eclipsed by its more powerful neighbour, Mercia: after his deposition or death, Mercian control was restored under Coenwulf and the East Anglians lost their independence for a quarter of a century.
Knowledge of Eadwald's short reign comes almost solely from the few surviving coins that were minted under his name. No details of his life, or rule as king, are known.
== Background ==
The kingdom of East Anglia () was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Cambridgeshire Fens.
From the 6th century, East Anglia was ruled by a single royal family known as the Wuffingas, who retained dynastic power until the end of the reign of Ælfwald in 749.〔Yorke, ''Kings and Kingdoms'', p. 67.〕 After Ælfwald, the East Angles were ruled independently by a series of kings of unknown lineage, until in 794 their last independent king, Æthelberht, was beheaded in Mercia on the order of Offa of Mercia, who then ruled the kingdom directly. East Anglia briefly strove for independence after 796, the year that Offa was succeeded by his son Ecgfrith. Ecgfrith died after a rule of only five months and was succeeded by a distant kinsman, Coenwulf.〔Grierson and Blackburn, ''Mediaeval European Coinage'', p. 283.〕
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