Aethelweard of East Anglia (810-854) was King of East Anglia from 845 to 854, succeeding Aethelstan and preceding Edmund the Martyr.
Biography[]
Aethelweard was born in East Anglia in 810, the son of King Aethelstan of East Anglia. He succeded his father as King in 845, and he ruled over an independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom free of Mercian or West Saxon overlordship. He died in 854 and was succeeded by his son Edmund the Martyr.