Eadberht II.

Eadberht II. (Also: Eadbertus, Edbertus, Ædbertus ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent from 762 to around 764 .

The sources of Eadberht are sparse and contradicting: Johannes von Worcester , a historian of the 12th century, wrote in the Chronicon ex chronicis that Eadberht III. Præn (796–798) was the brother of Æthelberht II. And equated him with Eadberht I. and Eadberht II. Some modern historians consider Eadberht I and Eadberht II (762– around 764) to be identical people.

Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Life

Eadberht was the last ruler from the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas . His parents are unknown. It is possible that Æthelberht II was his father or grandfather.

When King Æthelberht II died in 762, Eadberht II succeeded him as king. However, Kent was under the hegemony of Mercia , whose king Offa dominated the whole of southern England. Three charters of Eadberht II or their copies have been preserved. With the Charter S32, Sigered , the co-king in western Kent, certified a donation of farmland near Rochester to Bishop Eardwulf for the local monastery in 762 . Eadberht II confirmed this donation of land with his show of hands . With Charter S28, Eadberht 762/763 notarized the donation of arable land near Mundelingeham (Great Mongeham near Dover ) and the rights to use a forest to St. Peter's Abbey in Canterbury . With this donation, Eadberht combined the wish to be buried in the abbey like his "forefathers". The Charter S29 granted the Abbess Sigeburga of St. Peter Minster on the Isle of Thanet to 763/764 tax exemption for three ships. Eadberht was illiterate and signed with a cross, which he put propria manu ("with your own hand").

Around the year 764 the rule of Eadberht II passed to Eanmund . The details of the succession are unknown. Thomas Elmham , a 15th century chronicler, reported that Eadberht was buried in Reculver. Troubles may have prevented Eadberht's desired funeral in Canterbury,

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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 .
Julia Barrow , Andrew Wareham (Eds.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks , Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8 .

Web links

Eadberht 15 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)

Individual evidence

↑ EB Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 .
↑ 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. 37-38.
↑ Julia Barrow, Andrew Wareham (eds.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks , Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8 , p. 77.
^ ^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.
↑ 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.
↑ Charter S32
↑ Charter S28
↑ Charter S29
↑ Julia Barrow, Andrew Wareham (eds.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks , Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8 , pp. 78-79.

predecessor	Office	successor
Æthelberht II.	King of East Kent 762 – c. 764	Eanmund

personal data
SURNAME	Eadberht II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eadbertus; Edbertus; Ædbertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King in Kent
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH	8th century or 9th century

[1] EB Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 .

[2] 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. 37-38.

[3] Julia Barrow, Andrew Wareham (eds.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks , Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8 , p. 77.

[enc501-4] 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.

[enc11-5] 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] Charter S32

[7] Charter S28

[8] Charter S29

[9] Julia Barrow, Andrew Wareham (eds.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks , Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8 , pp. 78-79.