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Raedwald
Raedwald [Na].King of the East Angles, who accepted Christianity at the prompting of AETHELBERHT of Kent, though continuing to worship his old gods. He was recognized as Bretwalda, ‘high king’, of the English. It is likely, though not certain, that the great ship-burial of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was the tomb of Raedwald. He died c.AD 625.
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