Eadbald of Kent

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AVDVARLD REGES
Coin of King Eadbald

Eadbald (also Auduarld, Eadbold, Edbaldus or Rædbald ; † January 20, 640 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent from 616/618 to 640 . He came from the Oiscingas dynasty .

Life

Eadbald was the son of King Æthelberht I and his first wife Bertha , the daughter of the Merovingian King Charibert I and Ingoberga . His sister was called Æthelburg . His parents were staunch Christians and were venerated as saints after their death . According to the report of the monk Beda Venerabilis , Eadbald remained a heather, while the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that he revoked his baptism after the death of his father.

Eadbald may have been involved in his father's rule in western Kent since 604. After his mother died between 601 and 616, Æthelberht married again. The name of this queen has not been passed down. After Æthelberht's death in 616/618, Eadbald married his stepmother. Eadbald was converted by Archbishop Lawrence of Canterbury in 618. He abandoned his wife and became an ardent supporter of Christianity. He recalled the fled Bishops Mellitus and Justus from the Frankish Empire and reinstated Justus as Bishop of Rochester . However, his political influence was less than that of his father and he did not succeed in re-establishing Mellitus in the Diocese of London, which is part of Essex. In Canterbury , Eadbald had a Church of the Mother of God built, which was consecrated by Mellitus, now Archbishop of Canterbury (619-624).

After his baptism, Eadbald was married to Emma (also Æmma or Ymme), the daughter of a Frankish king , possibly Chlothar II , and had with her the sons Earconberht and Ecgfrith. Another son was Eormenred . According to a Christian legend, Eanswith, abbess of Folkestone , was also a daughter of Eadbald and Emma. Some historians assume that Emma was the daughter of Erchinoald , the Franconian Hausmeier in Neustria .

The graves of the Kentish kings Eadbald († 640), Hlothhere († 685), Wihtred († 725) and Mul († 687) in today's St. Augustine Abbey . (left to right)

At first Eadbald seems to have an otherwise unknown Æthelwald and later his son Eormenred involved in the rule. After the death of Bretwalda Rædwald around the year 625, Northumbria developed into a hegemonic power. Eadbald continued the marriage and missionary policy of his predecessors and in 625 arranged the marriage of his sister Æthelburg to the pagan Edwin of Northumbria on the condition that she and her companions were allowed to practice their religion freely. After Edwin's death in 633, Æthelburg had to flee to Kent with their children and Bishop Paulinus , who had accompanied them to Northumbria, where they were warmly received. Eadbald and Archbishop Honorius of Canterbury gave the vacant diocese of Rochester to Paulinus. Gold coins that were minted in London are known from Eadbald's reign . They bear the inscription "AVDVARLD".

Eadbald died in the year 640 and his son Earconberht succeeded him as king, presumably together with Eormenred his other son. Eadbald had ordered that his body be buried in the Abbey Church of "Peter and Paul" in Canterbury.

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  1. ↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of Kent . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 501-502.
  2. Jump up ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , pp. 25-26.
  3. ↑ a b Beda: HE 2.5
  4. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 616
  5. ↑ Nicholas Brooks: Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85285-154-5 , p. 187.
  6. ↑ Nicholas Brooks: Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 , Hambledon & London, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85285-154-5 , pp. 47-51.
  7. ↑ a b c S 6
  8. ↑ a b Beda: HE 2,6
  9. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 640
  10. ↑ Eanswith 1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE); see: John von Tinmouth: De sancta Eanswida virgine et abbatissa , 14th century@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk  
  11. ↑ Barbara Yorke: The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain , 600-800, Pearson, 2006, ISBN 978-0-582-77292-2 , p. 65.
  12. ^ Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 32. PDF (6.2 MB) .
  13. ↑ Nicholas J. Higham: The convert kings: power and religious affiliation in early Anglo-Saxon England , Manchester University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7190-4828-9 , p. 142.
  14. ↑ Beda: HE 2.9
  15. ↑ Beda: HE 2.20
  16. ↑ Gold tremissis (shilling) of Eadbald of Kent ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 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. on the British Museum website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishmuseum.org
  17. ^ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 37.
predecessor Office successor
Æthelberht I. King of Kent
616 / 618–640 		Earconberht I.
Eormenred  ?
personal data
SURNAME Eadbald of Kent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auduarld; Eadbold; Edbaldus; Rædbald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 640