Eadric (Kent)

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Eadric (also Edric, Edricus, Ædric ; * around 670; † probably in August 686 or August 31, 687 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent from 685 until his death . He came from the Oiscingas dynasty .

Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Life

family

Eadric was a son of King Ecgberht I. His mother's name is unknown. His brother Wihtred later also became king. It is possible that Eormenhild ("Hermelinda"), the Anglo-Saxon wife of the Longobard king Cunincpert , was his sister. Eadric's descendants are not known.

Succession to the throne

According to the chronicler Beda Venerabilis , after Ecgberht's death on July 4, 673, his brother Hlothhere succeeded him as king. Presumably, however, there was a one-year interregnum by Wulfhere von Mercia, a brother-in-law of Ecgberht. After a military defeat against Northumbria in 674, Wulfheres influence waned and in 675, the year Wulfheres died, Hlothhere notarized a charter in the "first year of his rule" without the usual consent of the hegemonic power Mercia.

Since about 679 there was probably a subordinate co-regency Eadric, since his name can be found together with that of his uncle Hlothheres under a code of law. Kent's sphere of influence seems to have extended as far as Lundenwic (London) in Essex , where a wic-gerefa (for example "market bailiff") officiated in Kent's "royal hall". In 679, Hlothhere cum consensu archiepiscopi Theodori et Edrico, filium fratris mei ("with the consent of Archbishop Theodor and Eadrics, my brother's son") gave lands near Westanae (on the Isle of Thanet ) and to the abbot Beorhtwald and the Reculver monastery in Sturry (near Canterbury). This is the oldest originally preserved Anglo-Saxon charter . A later charter of King Swæfheard from 689 confirmed an apparently joint donation of land to Hlothheres and Eadrics.

Domination

Around 684/685 Eadric and Hlothhere must have fallen out, 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. In June 686, Eadric sold the Abbot Hadrian of St. Peter's Convent in Canterbury lands near Stodmarsh (about 8 km east of Canterbury) for 10 libras (about " pounds ") of silver. Very soon afterwards, however, Eadric had to deal with Caedwalla , King of Wessex , who went on several campaigns to subdue the south and east of England. Caedwalla thus won power over Sussex and finally conquered Kent in 686 in alliance with King Sighere of Essex . Caedwalla then installed his brother Mul as governor in Kent. The fate of Eadric is unclear: According to Beda Venerabilis , Eadric died in 686 after one and a half years of reign, i.e. during these battles. Other sources give the date of death August 31, 687. A period of rapidly changing foreign rulers and usurpers followed in Kent until the Oiscingas dynasty regained power in 690 with Eadric's brother Wihtred .

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  1. ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 96.
  2. ↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of Kent . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 501-502.
  3. ↑ a b Annales Lindisfarnenses et Cantuarienses , MGH SS IV, p. 2.
  4. ↑ a b c d Beda: HE 4.26
  5. ^ Historia Langobardorum V, 37
  6. ^ Ecgberht in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy; see: Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI, p. 305
  7. ↑ Beda: HE 4,5
  8. ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 96.
  9. ↑ S7
  10. ↑ Frank Merry Stenton (author), Doris Mary Stenton (ed.): Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton (Oxford Scholarly Classics), Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0198223146 , p. 50.
  11. ↑ Barbara Yorke: The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 600-800 , Pearson, 2006, ISBN 978-0-582-77292-2 , p. 7.
  12. ↑ Nicholas J. Higham: An English Empire: Bede, the Britons, and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings , Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0719044236 , pp. 121-123.
  13. ↑ Peter Hayes Sawyer: From Roman Britain to Norman England , Methuen, 1978, ISBN 978-0416716207 , pp. 41-42.
  14. ↑ S8
  15. ↑ S10
  16. ↑ S9
  17. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 30.
predecessor Office successor
Hlothhere King of Kent
685–686 / 687
fellow-king since about 679 		Mul
personal data
SURNAME Eadric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edric; Edricus; Ædric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH around 670
DATE OF DEATH at August 686 or August 31, 687