Æthelberht II.

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Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Æthelberht II. (Also Æthelbert, Æthelberct, Æþelberht, Æðelbriht, Æðelbyrht ; † 762 ) was (upper) king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent from 725 until his death . He came from the Oiscingas dynasty .

Life

He was a son of King Wihtred (690 / 691-725). His mother was either Cynegyth, Æthelburg or Wærburg, one of Wihtred's three wives. Wihtred died on April 23, 725. Heirs of the kingdom were his three sons Æthelberht II., Eadberht I and Ealric . As the eldest of the brothers, Æthelberht received East Kent and the supremacy, Eadberht ruled West Kent, while Ealric, who then disappeared from the sources, was probably a subordinate co-king. Presumably Ealric died soon after. In contrast to this representation, which is widely accepted today, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle names Eadberht as the sole heir to the throne, who succeeded Æthelberht in 748.

Before 731 Kent came under the rule of Mercias, whose king dessenthelbald finally dominated the whole of southern England. In 748 Æthelberht's brother Eadberht I died and his son Eardwulf (748 – before 762) became king in western Kent. Æthelberht transferred land to St Andrew's Church in Rochester . In addition to other charters , a letter from Æthelberht to Bonifatius , the "Apostle of the Germans", was preserved. With Eardwulf's death before 762, the rule of the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas in western Kent ended. He was succeeded by Sigered , who probably came from the royal dynasty of Essex . Æthelberht himself died in 762 and was buried in the Abbey Church of "Peter and Paul" in Canterbury . He was succeeded as king by Eadberht II , who was probably a relative of his.

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literature

  • Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
  • John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 21.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bede: HE 5.23
  2. ↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 21.
  3. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 725
  4. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 748
  5. ↑ Simon Keynes: Æthelbald . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 11-13.
  6. ^ A b Simon Keynes: Kings of Kent . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 501-502.
  7. ↑ Charter S1458
  8. ↑ Æthelberht 5 ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
  9. ↑ Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 24, de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017575-2 , pp. 298-299.
  10. ↑ J. Insley: Oiscingas . In: Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (Eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 22, de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 978-3-11-017351-2 , pp. 33-38.
  11. ↑ Æthelberht 5 ( memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE); see: Charter S28 and Charter S1182
predecessor Office successor
Wihtred King of East Kent
725–762 		Eadberht II.
personal data
SURNAME Æthelberht II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Æthelbert; Æthelberct; Covered; Æðelbriht; Æðelbyrht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper King of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH 762