Æthelberht (Wessex)

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Æthelberht in an illustration from the 13th century

Æthelberht of Wessex and Kent (* around 835, † 865 ) was the second oldest surviving son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex . After the death of his father, the kingdom of Wessex and the conquered kingdoms were divided between the sons of Æthelwulf, with Æthelberht transferring the sub-kingdoms of Kent , Essex and Surrey , while his older brother Æthelbald received the main kingdom of Wessex, which he had previously replaced his father had ruled. 860 he succeeded his brother King Aethelbald by and was like his father and his brother in Kingston upon Thames for Wessex king crowned. During his reign, Ragnar sacked Lodbrok Kent and Northumbria . In Æthelberht's early reign they even came as far as Winchester . Æthelberht died in 865 after a five-year reign and was buried at Sherborne Abbey in Dorset next to his brother Æthelbald. Having died celibate, his younger brother Æthelred I succeeded him.

Since 1997, Æthelberht has given its name to the Ethelbert Ridge , a mountain ridge on Alexander I Island in Antarctica.

See also

swell

  • David Dumville (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A collaborative edition. Volume 3: Janet M. Bately (Ed.): MS A. A Semi-Diplomatic Edition with Introduction and Indices. Brewer, Cambridge 1986, ISBN 0-85991-103-9 .

literature

  • James Campbell (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons. Phaidon, London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .
  • David P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings. Unwin Hyman, London et al. 1991, ISBN 0-04-445691-3 .
  • Frank M. Stenton : Anglo-Saxon England (= Oxford History of England. 2). 3rd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971.

Remarks

  1. ↑ ASC A , s. a. 866. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives 866 as the year of death; However, this is commonly corrected to 865 (Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd edition. 1971, p. 245; Kirby: The Earliest English Kings. 1991, p. 169 and Simon Keynes: Alfred the Great. Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1983, ISBN 0-14-044409-2 , p. 315).
  2. ^ Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd edition. 1971, p. 245.
  3. ↑ Kirby: The Earliest English Kings. Unwin Hyman, London et al. 1991, p. 167.
  4. ^ Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd edition. 1971, p. 241.
predecessor Office successor
Æthelbald King of Wessex
860–865 		Æthelred I.
personal data
SURNAME Æthelberht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aethelbert; Ethelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Wessex
DATE OF BIRTH around 835
DATE OF DEATH 865