The Home of Overlord King Rædwald

The power-base of the Wuffinga Saxon royal dynasty

Rendlesham was the likely first royal town of the powerful Wuffinga Saxon royal dynasty. Edmund, the last native king of king of East Anglia, may have also been the last Wuffinga king.

Originally from Jutland, the Wuffingas settled around Suffolk Sandlings, echoing earlier Neolithic and Bronze Age patterns. Their first king, by tradition, was Wehha, followed by Wuffa (although it is not clear if either of these figures had any historical basis, or were legendary emblematic figures.) Either way, the Wuffingas were ultimately responsible for establishing the Kingdom of East Anglia, in the first quarter of the 6th century, by uniting an older group of settlers in the north – the North Folk – with their own South Folk.