Saelred of Essex (also known as Selered) reigned as

King of Essex la, Regnum Orientalium Saxonum , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of the East Saxons , common_name = Essex , era = Heptarchy , status = , status_text = , government_type = Monarch ...

from c. 709 to 746. His claim to the throne was due to descent from Sledd of Essex, the dynastic founder. For part of his reign he probably ruled jointly with Swaefbert, who, it is speculated, may have ruled the sub-kingdom of

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. His date of death is known from an entry in the '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' although the circumstances are not recorded. Saelred was succeeded by Swithred, grandson of Sigeheard. Saelred's own son

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succeeded Swithred. Like his predecessors, Saelred was not an independent ruler, but a dependent of the Kingdom of

Mercia la, Merciorum regnum , conventional_long_name=Kingdom of Mercia , common_name=Mercia , status=Kingdom , status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879) Client state of Wessex () , life_span=527–918 , era= Heptarchy , event_start= , date_start= , ...

.Barbara Yorke, ‘East Saxons, kings of the (act. late 6th cent.–c.820)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 9 Feb 2008

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