Æthelberht I. (East Anglia)

Æthelberht I. (also: Alberht or Ethælbert ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia around the middle of the 8th century. No contemporary accounts of thelberht's life have come down to us.

Æthelberhts coin

Life

With Ælfwald's death in 749, the Wuffinger dynasty died out . The kingdom was divided between Hunbeanna and Alberht (Æthelberht I.). According to another opinion, Ælfwald was followed by the three ruling kings Hun , Beorna and Æthelberht I, of which only Beorna and Æthelberht are unequivocally proven as kings by coin finds.

In Burrow Hill ( Suffolk ) a coin Æthelberhts minted by the mint master Tilræd was found in the early 1980s , on which the king's name Ethælbert is stamped in runic script. Æthelberht's reign ended around the year 760.

swell

• Symeon of Durham : Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum for the year 749
• John of Worcester : Chronicon

literature

• Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ K. Wade: East Anglia ; In: Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich and Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 6 , de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-010468-4 , p. 328; see: Symeon of Durham : Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum for the year 749.
2. ↑ Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , p. 509.
3. ↑ Fitzwilliam Museum : Website ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Ælfwald	King of East Anglia together with Hun and Beorna 749 – around 760	Æthelred I.