Rædƿald
Rædƿald (ēac (H)ræðƿald), Tytilan sunu, ƿæs þæs ēasternan Anȝelfolces cyning ymb 600 CE oþ his dēaþ in 624 CE. Fram 616 CE hē wearþ sē rīcosta brytencyning besūþan þǣre Humbran, and campes framscipum macede hē Norþanhymbranisc aloten dihtend tō beorȝenne ƿillan his. Hē ƿæs forma Anȝel cyning beȝietan Crīstendōmes tæcinge and fulƿiht (fram þǣre Cantƿareburge sande), and healp elnian hine wiþ þone frambiȝe of Ēastseaxum and Cente. Hē is se ȝecorenosta mann for þā namcūþan Sūþtūn Hōh scipbyrȝenna. In þǣm niȝoðan hundȝēare hē is reord in þǣm Anȝelseaxiscum Cranicum tō ƿesenne Brytenƿealda.
Endebyrdum [ādihtan]
Þā forman and fullestan ƿrītunga be Rædƿalde is Bēda þæm Stǣre Angelþeodes cyricean, þe sæȝþ þæt his rīce betƿēonum þǣre Augustiniscan sande cyme tō Cente (on þǣm 597 gēare) and þǣre ǣƿnunge and cierringe Ēadwines of Norþanhymbran (fram 625 oþ 26). Consula æfterran trahtas (mid ungeƿislīcum dōme) secgaþ þæt Rædƿaldes dēaþ tƿā, æt 599 and 624, sƿā ƿēnunga þæt ofhende consula for 599 ƿæs for Tytilan dēaþ and Rædƿaldes āhafennesse.
Rædƿaldes Rīce [ādihtan]
For Rædƿaldes ȝeong līf ƿealdendeu hūs of ōþerum rīcum ƿæron becumende stranglic fæstedon. Æðelbryht of Cent (foreƿesede 560-616) wæs weddede Berctan, Frankisc Charibertes of Paris crīstene dohtor. Ceawlin West-Seaxna, mæst sƿīþ bregu sūþ fram Humbre, æƿde Æðelbryhtes infare fram Cent til 584, þā æfter feohtende þære Brytena in Oxnafordscīr his rīce ƿanede and Æðelbryht āhte ȝelīc rīce. In Mierce seo heolstoru līcnes Creoda, Iceles bearn, befæstede his cynnes grēatness. Norþ fram Humbre ēa þā tƿā Deira rīcu (on Eoforwic) and þæt māra norþerne Bernice (on Bamburgh) hæfdedon ƿiðerhȳdigu rīcu. Ælla of Deira racede til his dēaþ in 588, lǣfende Acha dohtor and Edwin sunu sƿā mid þriddum siblinge. Þæt Bernicisc rīce (ȝeƿæred cȳþþe West Seaxnan) ƿæs elnende rīcsunge, and Edwin gamolede in ƿræce in Cadfan ap lago cafortūn of Gwynedde. In missenlicu wīȝ þæt Bernicisc Æðelfriþ ȝeānlǣcede Norþanhymbranisc rīce, and in 604 brōhte Deira under his ānƿealde.
Rædƿaldes Cynn [ādihtan]
Rædƿaldes ȝecynd fram Wuffan, Wuffinȝes ȝenamed leōdfruma, is Bedes ƿord. Hē ƿæs ȝeboren betweox þǣm 560 gēare and 580 and ƿæs (gelīce ieldra) Enian brōþor. Ƿēnunga for þǣm 590um hē beƿeddede hæðenum ƿīfe mid hēaȝum cyste mōdstaðole hƿæs naman is ne cūþne. Fram hire hē hæfd be þæm læstan tƿā suna, Rægenhere (alder) and Eorpwald. Ēac hē hæfd Sigeberht, ealder sunu oþþe stēopsunue.
Sē nama 'Sigeberht' is ne ȝelīc æniȝ ōþerne Wuffing naman, ac hē is mǣnelic mid þǣm Ēastseaxa rīce. Sledde of Essex (rīcsede c 587-604) beƿeddede Ricula, Æðelbryhtes sweostor. Æðelbryht āhealp his nefan æfterfylgendnesse, hira sunu, in Ēastseaxe, mid æfter þæm tūm cyningum becōmon of Crīstendōm. Hit is manade þæt Rædƿaldes ƿīf ǣr beƿeddede þæm cynnes gildan and Sigeberht ƿæs (sƿā sæȝþ William of Malmesbury) Rædƿaldes stēopsunue. Sigeberht (þæt grēoƿ in hæðenum hūse) earnode þā fēondrædenne Rædƿaldes, þȳs drīfan him mid giestinge in Gaul, ƿēnunga ƿeardian his āȝenum blōde cynnes.
