Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Nunna
NUNNA or NUN (fl. 710), king of the South-Saxons, joined his kinsman, Ine or Ini [q. v.], king of the West-Saxons, in his victorious war with Gerent, king of British Dyvnaint, in 710 (Anglo-Saxon Chron. sub. an.; Ethelweard, ii. c. 12). He first appears as confirming a charter of Nothelm [q. v.], king of the South-Saxons, in 692, where he is described as also king of Sussex; to the charter the names of Wattus, king, Coenred, king of the West-Saxons, and Ine are also appended (Codex Dipl. No. 995). He was no doubt an ætheling of the house of Ceawlin, and reigned in Sussex, which, since the invasion of Cædwalla (659?–689) [q. v.], had been under West-Saxon supremacy. The three charters of Nunna given in the ‘Monasticon’ and by Kemble (ib. Nos. 999, 1000, 1001) from the register of the dean and chapter of Chichester are of doubtful authority. In the first, dated 714, Nunna grants land to the monks of the isle of Selsey, where he desires to be buried; the second, dated 725, is a grant to Eadbert, bishop of Selsey, and the third a grant of land at Pipering to a ‘servant of God’ named Berhtfrith, on condition that prayer should be offered there continually for the donor.
[Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 710 (Rolls Ser.); Ethelweard, ii. c. 12 (Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 507); Flor. Wig. an. 710 (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Kemble's Codex Dipl. Nos. 995, 999, 1000, 1001 (Engl. Hist. Soc. v. 39, 41, 43); Dugdale's Monasticon, vi. 1162, 1163; Somerset Archæol. Soc.'s Proc. 1872, xviii. ii. 25, 26, 33, 45.]