Eadberht III. Præn

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Coin of Eadberht Praen, minted by the mint master Æthelmod in Canterbury

Eadberht Præn (also Odberht, Eadbriht, Eadbryht, Eadbert III .; Nickname : Pryn, Prænn, Praen, Wræn ) was King of Kent from 796 to 798 .

Life

Kent had come under the rule of King Offa of Mercien in 785 . Eadberht seems to have lived in exile as a priest at the court of Charlemagne at the time. Around 795/796 Eadberht, who had probably only become a priest by force, traveled to Rome to face his fall from Pope Leo III. (795–816) to decide. Archbishop Æthelheard (792-805) of Canterbury was sent from Offa to Rome to represent Mercias.

Shortly before Offa's death in 796, a revolt broke out in Kent, led by Eadberht Præn. He was probably supported by Charlemagne, or at least tolerated benevolently, when he was proclaimed king in Kent in 796. Also Eadwald (796 to 800), king of East Anglia seems to have become detached from Mercia and allied with Kent, for both rebel kings influenced similar own coins. Archbishop Æthelheard of Canterbury fled to Mercia, whose king Cenwulf in correspondence with Pope Leo III. kicked. Leo excommunicated Eadberht and gave Cenwulf his consent to retake Kent. Cenwulf marched with his army in 798, plundering and destroying Kent, captured King Eadberht and brought him in chains to Mercia. Eadberht was mutilated: his hands were cut off and his eyes torn out, but his life is said to have been spared. Later traditions say that he was held in monastery custody at Winchcombe (near Tewkesbury ). William of Malmesbury , a 12th century chronicler, said that Eadberht Præn was pardoned and released by Cenwulf in 811. Eadberht's further life and death have not been recorded.

When the rebellion was crushed in 798, Cenwulf installed his brother Cuthred as sub-king in Kent.

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literature

  • Joanna Story: Carolingian connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 . Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7546-0124-1 , esp .: Odberht / Eadberht Præn and the Kentish Revolution 796-798 , pp. 139-143.
  • William Hunt :  Eadbert Præn . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 16:  Drant - Edridge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1888, p. 305 (English ,, (partly outdated state of research)).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joanna Story: Carolingian connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 . Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7546-0124-1 , pp. 139-143.
  2. ^ A b Frank Merry Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 , p. 225.
  3. ↑ Colin Blunt: The Coinage of Offa . In: Reginald Hugh Michael Dolley (Ed.), Anglo-Saxon Coins. Studies presented to FM Stenton on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 17 May 1960, Methuen, London 1961, p. 50.
  4. ^ William Hunt :  Eadbert Præn . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 16:  Drant - Edridge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1888, p. 305 (English ,, (partly outdated state of research)).
predecessor Office successor
Offa of Mercien King of Kent
796–798 		Cuthred
personal data
SURNAME Eadberht III. Præn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eadbert; Odberht; Eadbriht; Eadbryht; (Nickname); Pryn (nickname); Prænn (nickname); Praen (nickname); Wræn (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Kent (796-798)
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH after 811