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Eni or Ennius was a supposed early 7th century King of East Anglia. He was certainly the son of Tyttla and brother of Raedwald, both Kings of East Anglia.

There is no historical mention of Eni as a King of the East Angles, nor is there any clear evidence that he was one. The principal references to him are in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, and in the East Anglian dynastic tally preserved in the Anglian Collection. The tally is not a regnal list but a series of genealogical affiliations - hence it does not mention Raedwald, who was not a direct ancestor of the line of Eni.

It is possible, but nowhere indicated, that Raedwald associated Eni to his power as an East Anglian regent or sub-king during the period of his own ascendancy, 616-624. The sources we have indicate that Eorpwald, Raedwald's son, succeeded his father.

Eni is identified by Bede as the father of three East Anglian Kings, namely Anna (r. c636-654), Aethelhere (r. 654) and Aethelwold (r. 654-664). In the Anglian Collection tally he is also the grandfather of King Ealdwulf (r. 664-713), whose father was Aethilric son of Eni (Ening). Since the power reverted to Ealdwulf in 664 after the rule of his uncles, it is often supposed that Aethilric was an elder brother of Anna, Aethelhere and Aethelwold, and may be the same person as King Ecgric, who shared the throne with Sigeberht (c 629-634) and died with him in 636. Hereswith, Ealdwulf's mother, had already left East Anglia for a monastic life in Gaul by 647 (Bede, History, iv.23) so Athilric had probably died by then.

Many of Eni's descendants appear to have been extremely devout Christians, and as an immediate member of Raedwald's household he must certainly have been aware of, and possibly even shared in, Raedwald's baptism, which occurred in Kent under the sponsorship of King Aethelbert of Kent before 616, at the hands of the mission sent by Pope Gregory I. Eni's devout son Anna was presumably resident at Exning in 631 when Anna's daughter Etheldreda (Saint Audrey) was born there. Exning is close to the Isle of Ely where, at Cratendune, Saint Augustine of Canterbury himself (d. c604) is stated (in Liber Eliensis) to have established a church. It is possible, therefore, that the Christianity of Eni's descendants had its origins in an East Anglian phase of Augustine's own mission.

• B. Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (eds). (1969). Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford.
• D.N. Dumville. (1976). 'The Anglian Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists' in Anglo-Saxon England 5, 23-50.
• S. Plunkett. (2005). Suffolk in Anglo-Saxon Times. Stroud: Tempus Publishing