Anglia
EAST, a kingdom founded by the ANGLES (q. v.) about the middle of the 6th century, in the eastern part of central En England, in what forms the present counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
At first to some extent dependent on Kent, and afterward on Mercia, on the fall of the latter it was attached to Weswithout, however, losing its own kings until the time of the Danish invasion, when it was seized by the invaders and formed into a Danish kingdom under Edward, the son and successor of Alfred, after a long strug gle, forced the Danes to acknowledge him in 921. Under him Wessex grew to be England, and East Anglia was henceforward part and parcel of the kingdom. It was one of the four great earldoms of the kingdom doms of the kingdom under Canute.