Anglo-Saxon kingdom in eastern England, home of the Sutton Hoo burial, which fell under Danelaw and was then absorbed into a unified England.
Conquered in 869–870 by the Great Heathen Army under Ivar the Boneless; King Edmund was killed on 20 November 869 and East Anglia ceased to be an independent kingdom.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Kingdom of East Anglia — the shape you scrub through changes in 571 · 826.
Leading scholarly journal on Anglo-Saxon history and culture covering East Anglia
Contemporary annals recording East Anglia's history, its fall under the Danelaw, and absorption into a unified England.
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