Rædwald Ēastengla Cyning

Rædƿald (ēac (H)ræðƿald), Tytilan sunu, ƿæs þæs Ēastengla cyning of ymb 600 oþ his dēaþ in þǣm gēare 624. Fram 616 ƿearþ he sē rīcosta brytencyning besūþan þǣre Humbran, and campes framscipum macede hē Norþanhymbranisc aloten dihtend tō beorgenne ƿillan his. Hē ƿæs forma Angel cyning begietan Crīstendōmes tæcinge and fulƿiht (fram þǣre Cantƿarabyrig sande), and healp elnian hine ƿiþ þone frambige of Ēastseaxum and Cent. Hē is se gecorenosta mann for þā namcūþan Sūþtūn Hōh scipbyrgenna. In þǣm nigoðan hundgēare hē is reord in þǣm Angelseaxiscum Cranicum tō ƿesenne Brytenƿealda.

Endebyrdum

Þā forman and fullestan ƿrītunga be Rædƿalde is Bēda þæm Stǣre Angelþeodes cyricean, þe sægþ þæt his rīce betƿēonum þǣre Augustiniscan sande cyme tō Cente (on þǣm 597 gēare) and þǣre ǣƿnunge and cierringe Ēadƿines 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

For Rædƿaldes geong līf ƿealdendeu hūs of ōþerum rīcum ƿæron becumende stranglic fæstedon. Æðelbryht of Cent (foreƿesede 560-616) ƿæs ƿeddede Berctan, Frankisc Charibertes of Paris crīstene dohtor. Ceaƿlin Ƿest-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 gelīc rīce. In Mierce seo heolstoru līcnes Creoda, Iceles bearn, befæstede his cynnes grēatness. Norþ fram Humbre ēa þā tƿā Deira rīcu (on Eoforƿic) and þæt māra norþerne Bernice (on Bamburgh) hæfdedon ƿiðerhȳdigu rīcu. Ælla of Deira racede til his dēaþ in 588, lǣfende Acha dohtor and Edƿin sunu sƿā mid þriddum siblinge. Þæt Bernicisc rīce (geƿæred cȳþþe Ƿest Seaxnan) ƿæs elnende rīcsunge, and Edƿin gamolede in ƿræce in Cadfan ap lago cafortūn of Gƿynedde. In missenlicu ƿīg þæt Bernicisc Æðelfriþ geānlǣcede Norþanhymbranisc rīce, and in 604 brōhte Deira under his ānƿealde.

Rædƿaldes Cynn

Rædƿaldes gecynd fram Ƿuffan, Ƿuffinges genamed leōdfruma, is Bedes ƿord. Hē ƿæs geboren betƿeox þǣm 560 gēare and 580 and ƿæs (gelīce ieldra) Enian brōþor. Ƿēnunga for þǣm 590um hē beƿeddede hæðenum ƿīfe mid hēagum cyste mōdstaðole hƿæs naman is ne cūþne. Fram hire hē hæfd be þæm læstan tƿā suna, Rægenhere (alder) and Eorpƿald. Ēac hē hæfd Sigeberht, ealder sunu oþþe stēopsunue.

Sē nama 'Sigeberht' is ne gelīc ænig ōþerne Ƿuffinga naman, ac hē is mǣnelic mid þǣm Ēastseaxa rīce. Sledde Ēastseaxna Cyning (se rīcsode ymbe 587-604) beƿeddede Ricula, Æðelbryhtes sƿeostor. 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 sægþ Ƿillelm of Mælmesbeorge) Rædƿaldes stēopsunu. Sigeberht (þæt grēoƿ in hæðenum hūse) earnode þā fēondrædenne Rædƿaldes, þȳs drīfan him mid giestinge on Galƿalum, ƿēnunga ƿeardian his āgenum blōde cynnes.