Kingdom of East Anglia

The Kingdom of the East Angles (; Old English: Ä’astengla RÄ«Ä‹e; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia or East Anglia, was an early medievalEnglish kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period, existing from the 6th century to 918 CE. It comprised the territory which now constitutes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens; the area is still known as East Anglia.

The kingdom formed in the 6th century in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy. It was ruled by the Wuffingas dynasty in the 7th and 8th centuries, but the territory was taken by Offa of Mercia in 794. Mercian control lapsed briefly following the death of Offa but was re-established. The Danish Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia in 865; after taking York it returned to East Anglia, killing King Edmund ("the Martyr") and making it Danish land in 869. After Alfred the Great forced a treaty with the Danes, East Anglia was left as part of the Danelaw.

The kingdom was taken back from Danish control by Edward the Elder and incorporated into the Kingdom of England in 918.