Eohric (died late 902x904) was king of East Anglia. Seemingly of Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n origin, his name is the Old English

Old English language

Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...

 form of the Old Norse Eiríkr, little is known of Eohric or of East Anglia

Kingdom of the East Angles

The Kingdom of East Anglia, also known as the Kingdom of the East Angles , was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens...

 in his time.

East Anglia was attacked by the Viking

Viking

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 Great Heathen Army

Great Heathen Army

The Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Army or the Great Danish Army, was a Viking army originating in Denmark which pillaged and conquered much of England in the late 9th century...

 in around 869, King Edmund

Edmund the Martyr

St Edmund the Martyr was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.D'Evelyn, Charlotte, and Mill, Anna J., , 1956. Reprinted 1967...

 (later Saint Edmund) being killed on 20 November 869. Edmund was not the last Anglo-Saxon king, he was followed by Oswald

Oswald of East Anglia

Oswald was king of East Anglia in the 870s after the death of Edmund the Martyr. No textual evidence of his reign is known but some of his coins are known from the same period....

 and Æthelred

Æthelred II of East Anglia

Æthelred was King of East Anglia.No textual evidence of his reign is known, but numismatic evidence points to his reign being in the 870s, perhaps together with Oswald of East Anglia, whose coins are known from the same period....

 who are known only from numismatic evidence, that is their coins. Guthrum

Guthrum

The name Guthrum corresponds to Norwegian Guttom and to Danish Gorm.The name Guthrum may refer to these kings:* Guthrum, who fought against Alfred the Great* Gorm the Old of Denmark and Norway* Guthrum II, a king of doubtful historicity...

, who fought against Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English monarch still to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself...

, king of Wessex, appears to have been in control of East Anglia in the 880s, and issued coins in his own name. Guthrum died circa

Circa

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 890 but there is no record of his successor as the coinage issued in East Anglia after Guthrum commemorates King Edmund and does not name the ruler.

The only certain report of Eohric is that of his death. Eohric, along with other Scandinavian leaders in eastern Britain

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, supported the ætheling Æthelwold

Æthelwold of Wessex

Æthelwold was the youngest of three known sons of King Æthelred of Wessex. His brother Oswald is recorded between 863 and 875, and Æthelhelm is only recorded as a beneficiary of King Alfred's will in the mid 880s, and probably died soon afterwards...

 against Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder

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. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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reports in its entry under the year 905, probably to be dated to between 902 or 904 AD, that some time after October of that year the East Anglian army with Æthelwold and Eohric raided over the River Thames

River Thames

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 into Edward's lands. Edward took an army from Kent

Kent

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 into East Anglia, ravaging as far north as the Devil's Dyke

Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire

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 and the River Wissey

River Wissey

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. Eohric's East Anglians met Edward's army while it was returning home and a battle followed. Edward's army was victorious and Eohric and Æthelwold were among the dead.

The history of East Anglia after Eohric remains obscure until the conquest of the region by Edward the Elder.