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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eni_of_East_Anglia
Eni or Ennius was a member of the Wuffing family, the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom 
of East Anglia. He was the son of Tyttla and brother of Raedwald, both kings of East 
Anglia.
 
There is no historical evidence that Eni ever ruled the East Angles himself. The 
principal references to him are in Bede's Ecclesiastical History and in the East Anglian 
dynastic tally preserved in the Anglian collection. The tally is not a regnal list but a 
series of genealogical affiliations, (hence it does not mention Raedwald, who was not 
a direct ancestor of the line of Eni).

It is possible, but nowhere indicated, that Raedwald associated Eni to his power as an 
East Anglian regent or sub-king during the period of his own ascendancy, 616-624. 
The sources we have indicate that Eorpwald, Raedwald's son, succeeded his father.

Eni is identified by Bede as the father of three East Anglian kings, namely Anna (r. 
c636-654), Aethelhere (r. 654) and Aethelwold (r. 654-664). In the Anglian collection 
he is also the grandfather of King Ealdwulf (r. 664-713), whose father was Æthelric. 
Since royal power reverted to Ealdwulf in 664 after the rule of his uncles, it is often 
supposed that Æthelric was actually the elder brother of Anna, Æthelhere and 
Æthelwold and may be the same person as Egric of East Anglia, who shared the 
throne with Sigeberht (c. 629-634) and died with him in 636. Hereswitha, Ealdwulf's 
mother, had already left East Anglia for a monastic life in Gaul by 647 (Bede, History, 
iv.23)and so Æthelric was probably dead by then.

Many of Eni's descendants appear to have been devout Christians and as an 
immediate member of Raedwald's household he must certainly have been aware of, 
and possibly even shared in, Raedwald's baptism, which occurred in Kent under the 
sponsorship of King Æthelberht before 616, at the hands of the mission sent by Pope 
Gregory I. Eni's son Anna was presumably resident at Exning in 631 when Anna's 
daughter Æthelthryth (Saint Audrey) was born there. Exning is close to the Isle of Ely 
where, at Cratendune, Saint Augustine of Canterbury himself (d. c604) is stated (in 
Liber Eliensis) to have established a church. It is possible, therefore, that the 
Christianity of Eni's descendants had its origins in an East Anglian phase of 
Augustine's own mission.

Parents
____ Tytila ( -  593)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Eni ()

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
____ Anna (Onna) ( -  654)

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