Tytila | |
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King of the East Angles | |
Reign | possibly from about 578 to about 616. |
Predecessor | Wuffa |
Successor | Rædwald |
Religion | Anglo-Saxon Paganism |
Tytila (died around 616) was a semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia, a small Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Early sources, including Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, identify him as an early member of the Wuffingas dynasty who succeeded his father Wuffa. A later chronicle dates his reign from 578, but he is not known to have definitely ruled as king and nothing of his life is known. He is listed in a number of genealogical lists.
A number of later mediaeval sources recorded that in about 616, Tytila was succeeded by his son Rædwald.