Here I have compiled annotated genealogical information on the Wuffings for the world-wide web, based on my research since 1983. The genealogy itself is based primarily on two sources:

1. the fourteen-generation pedigree of the Wuffing king Ælfwald (c.713-749) preserved in the Anglian Collection of Old English royal genealogies (for a discussion of this important source and its relation to Old English heroic poetry, see my book, The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia, pp.57-64, 77-81, and the references there cited); and

2. the allusions to the East Anglian royal family provided by the famous Northumbrian monk Bede in his early eighth-century Historia Ecclesiastica.

The information is presented in three sections:

• Section A gives the order of names contained in the upper reaches of the genealogy, descending from the ancestral father-god Woden to the eponymous personification of the family totem, Wuffa, ‘Little Wolf’. Click here for Section A of the Wuffing Genealogy.

• Section B presents information on some of the more solidly historical Wuffings up to 749. All of the names in Section B are linked to individual pages summarizing what is known or can be deduced about these names and their bearers, with references.

• Section C provides a Regnal List of the later Wuffing Kings, from the death of Ælfwald [749] to the last of the famous Wuffings, St Edmund (20th Nov. 869). Click here for Section C.

or see below the family tree up to the mid-eighth century