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Death:           593 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tytila_of_East_Anglia
Tytila (died around 616) was a semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia, a small 
Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and 
Suffolk. Early sources, including Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 
identify him as an early member of the Wuffingas dynasty who succeeded his father 
Wuffa. A later chronicle dates his reign from 578, but he is not known to have 
definitely ruled as king and nothing of his life is known. He is listed in a number of 
genealogical lists.

A number of later mediaeval sources recorded that in about 616, Tytila was 
succeeded by his son Rędwald.
The Wuffingas dynasty[edit]

The peoples known to us as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians, began to arrive in 
Britain in the 5th century. By 600, a number of kingdoms had begun to form in 
southern and eastern Britain,[1] and by the beginning of the seventh century, southern 
England was almost entirely under their control.[2] Tytila was a member of the 
Wuffingas family, the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of the East Angles that was named 
after his father Wuffa. The Wuffingas may have been descendants of an earlier 
Scandinavian dynasty.[3][4] Both he and his father are semi-historical figures.

The Victorian ethnologist John Beddoe noted the similarity between the name Tytila 
and that of Totila, an Ostrogoth king.[5]

Tytila is included in a number of different tallies. In the Ecclesiastical History of the 
English People, which was completed in Northumbria by Bede in 731, Tytila is named 
as the father of Rędwald and the son of Wuffa: 'Erat autem praefatus rex Reduald 
natu nobilis, quamlibet actu ignobilis, filius Tytili, cuius pater fuit Uuffa...' .[6] The 9th 
century Welsh monk Nennius, in his Historia Brittonum, also lists Tytila, naming him as 
the father of Eni of East Anglia: '...Uffa, who begat Tytillus, who begat Eni,...' whilst 
relating the origin of the kings of East Anglia.[7] Tytila is included in an East Anglian 
royal tally that lists the ancestors of Ęlfwald and that names many, but not all, of the 
early East Anglian kings. The tally, which forms part of the Anglian collection, comes 
from the 12th century Textus Roffensis.[8]

Reign[edit]

Nothing is known of Tytila's life or his rule, as no written records have survived from 
this period in East Anglian history.[3] The mediaeval chronicler Roger of Wendover 
dated Tytila's reign from 578, but his source of information is unknown and the 
accession date may have been a guess on the part of the chronicler.[9] Tytila's son 
and successor, Rędwald, the greatest of the Wuffingas monarchs, is the first East 
Anglian king who is more than a semi-historical figure, although much information 
about him, including the year of his death, is conjectural.[10] The finds from the 
excavations of the two separate cemeteries at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and at other sites 
in East Anglia point to close connections at this time between south-eastern Britain, 
the Frankish Rhinelands, the Eastern Mediterranean and of growing royal prestige and 
authority, reflected by the magnificent grave-goods discovered in the main burial-ship 
at Sutton Hoo.[11]

The date that Tytlila died is unknown, but he is thought to have been succeeded by 
his son Rędwald in about 616.[12]

The descendants of Tytila's ancestor Wehha[13]

Parents
____ Wuffa ( -  578)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Tytila ( -  593)

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

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
____ Eni ()

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