A
Aelflaed - Offa's daughter (Mercian) (1)
Aelfgifu/Alfiva - Aelfgifu of Northampton was the mistress of Cnut (2)
Aethelflaed/Aethelfleda - Daughter of Alfred the Great (West Saxon) (1, 3)
Aethelswith - Daughter of Aethelwulf of Wessex (3)
C
Cynethryth/Cwenthryth - Wife of Merican Offa (1, 3)
E
Eadgifu - Daughter of Edward the Elder (3)
Ealhswith - Mercian noblewoman and wife of Alfred (1)
G
Gyda - Daughter of Harold Godwine c 1113 (3)
A
Aelfhere - Lived in Mercia around 978 (3)
Aelfric - Abbot and writer c 1010s (3)
Aelfwald - Died in 749, One of the East Angles (1)
Aelfweard - King of the West Saxons in 924 (1)
Aelle - Late 5th century man of Sussex (3)
Aethelbald - Mercian king from 716 to 757, Also the name of a West Saxon king who ruled from 858 to 860 (1)
Aethelberht - Killed in 794, One of the East Angles (1)
Aethelbert - Ruler of Kent, 560 - 616 and West Saxon king from 860 to 865. The name is probably the same as above. (1,3)
Aethelnoth - Ealdorman of Somerset, a West Saxon (1)
Aethelred - West Saxon king from 865 to 871 (1)
Aethelweard - A royal West Saxon (1)
Aethelwine - Ealdorman of East Anglis in the 970s (3)
Aethelwold - Alfred's nephew, a West Saxon (1)
Aethelwulf - West Saxon king from 839 to 858 (1)
Alcuin - Lived c 735 - 804. From York. (3)
Aldhelm - Lived before 754 in Malmesbury (3)
Alfred - West Saxon king from 871 to 899 (1)
Aluberht - Lived c 767 (3)
Alweo - Royal Merican (1)
Athelstan - The name of two West Saxon kings (1)
B
Beorhtwulf - Royal Merican (1)
Beornred - Mercian king in 757 (1)
Beornwulf - Mercian king from 823 to 825 (1)
Berhtwald - Mercian chief (1)
Boniface - English saint from Wessex. Not original name? Died c 709/710. (3)
Brorda - Mercian chief (1)
Burghred - Mercian king from 852 to 874 (1)
C
Ceawlin - West Saxon king from 560 to 592 (1, 3)
Cenred - Mercian king 704 to 709 (1)
Cenwealh - Royal Mercian (1)
Cenwulf - The name of two Mercian kings in the 700s and 800s (1)
Ceolwulf - Mercian king from 821 to 823, Also a king of the West Saxons (1)
Cerdic - A West Saxon king (1)
Creoda - Mercian king who died in 593, Also a king of the West Saxons (1)
Cutha - A king of the West Saxons (1)
Cuthbert - English saint c 630 - 687 (3)
Cuthwine - West Saxon king (1)
Cynric - A king of the West Saxons (1)
E
Eadbald - Mercian chief (1)
Eadberht - A bishop from Leicester (1)
Eadred - King of the West Saxons from 946 to 955 (1)
Eadric (2)
Eadwig - The son of Aethelred (2)
Eanulf - Royal Mercian (1)
Eawa - Mercian king, died 641 (1)
Ecgfrith - Offa's son, King of Mercia in 796 (1)
Edmund - Killed in 869, One of the East Angles (1)
Edwin - Northumbrian ruler 616 - 633 (3)
Egbert - West Saxon king (Wessex) from 802 to 839 (1, 3)
Egric - Killed 635, One of the East Angles (1)
Eni - One of the East Angles (1)
Eomaer - The first non-mythical Mercian king, lived before 593 (1)
Eorpwald - Lived in the 600s, One of the East Angles (1)
F
Frithogar - A mythical ancestor of the West Saxon kings (1)
G
Guthlac - English saint from Mercia c 675 - 714 (3)
H
Hathored - From Worcester (1)
Hunberht - Mercian Ealdorman c 835 (3)
Hygeberht - A bishop from Lichfield (Coventry) (1)
I
Icil - Mercian king before 593 (1)
Ine - West Saxon king (Wessex) from 688 to 726 (1, 3)
Ingild - A royal West Saxon who died in 718 (1)
J
Jaenberht - An archbishop from Kent (1)
L
Leofgyth - Lived c 740 (3)
O
Odda - Ealdorman of Devon, a West Saxon (1)
Offa - Mercian king from 757 to 796 (1)
Osbert - Ruler of Northumbria. Died c 867 (3)
Osmod - Royal Mercian (1)
Oswald - Northumbrian ruler 634 - 642 (3)
Oswy - Northumbrian ruler 642 - 670 (3)
P
Penda - Mercian king from 632 to 654 (1)
Pybba - Mercian king after 593 (1)
R
Raegenhere - Killed in 616, One of the East Angles (1)
Redwald - Ruler of East Anglia until c 616/627 (3)
S
Sigebert - Killed 635, One of the East Angles (1)
T
Thingfrith - Royal Mercian (1)
Tyttla - One of the East Angles (1)
W
Wehha - One of the East Angles (1)
Wilfrid - Ruler of Northumbria c 634 - 709 (3)
Willehad - Ruled c 766 - 774 (3)
Willibald - Lived c 720 (3)
Willibrord - Lived c 690 (3)
Wuffa - One of the East Angles (1)
Wulfhere - Mercian king from 657 to 674 (1)
Wulfstan - East Anglian archbishop and writer c 996 (3)
Note: There were double monasteries at Whitby and Repton (England) and Chelles (France) during this period. (3)
Sources:
(1) In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood, New York, Checkmark Books, 2001.
(2) The Vikings, Else Roesdahl, New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
(3) The Anglo-Saxons, ed. James Campbell, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982.
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