Berthun

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Sussex in Anglo-Saxon times

Berthun (also Berhthun, Beorhthun, Bercthun ; † around 686) was ruler of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Sussex in the 680s .

Life

Around 682, Caedwalla , an exiled member of the Wessex royal family , attacked Sussex with his army. King Æthelwalh fell during the fighting and Sussex was sacked. The fight against the conquerors from Wessex then continued Æthelwalh's successors, the Ealdormen Berthun and Andhun . They were initially able to drive Caedwalla out and together ruled over Sussex. Presumably Andhun ruled East Sussex while Berthun ruled West Sussex.

Around 684/685 Eadric and his uncle Hlothhere , the King of Kent, must have quarreled, because Eadric went to Sussex, where he mobilized troops against Hlothhere, whom he was able to defeat in a battle on February 6, 685. Hlothhere succumbed to his injuries while still on the battlefield. Eadric was succeeded as King of Kent.

Around the year 685/686 Caedwalla succeeded in a devastating counterattack in which Berthun was killed and Sussex came back under the rule of Wessex. Initially, the Kings of Wessex, Caedwalla and Ine , apparently ruled directly. After Bishop Wilfrid left Sussex around 686, the Church of Sussex came under Hædde , the Bishop of Winchester (Wessex). Before 692, Ine Watt and his relatives set up Nothhelm (= Nunna) as sub-kings dependent on Wessex.

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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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Keynes: Kings of the South Saxons . 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. 509-510.
  2. ↑ a b Beda: HE 4.15
  3. ↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 23.
  4. ↑ Beda: HE 4.26
predecessor Office successor
Æthelwalh Ruler of Sussex
682? - around 686
initially shared with Andhun 		Caedwalla (Wessex)
personal data
SURNAME Berthun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beorhthun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rulers in Sussex
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century
DATE OF DEATH at 686