Ealdberht (Wessex)

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Ealdberht (also Aldbryht, Ealdbriht, Ealdbryht, Eadbryht, Ealbyrht ; † 725 ) was an Anglo-Saxon Ætheling (about "Prince").

Life

Ealdberht probably came from the House of Wessex and was possibly a son of King Ine or his brother Ingeld († 718). At the beginning of the 720s it seems to have come to intra-dynastic disputes within the royal family of Wessex. 721 Ine killed his rival Cynewulf. Ines wife Æthelburg also apparently turned against him and in 722 had the town of Taunton , which was fortified by Ine around 710, destroyed. According to Henry of Huntingdon, a 12th century chronicler , Æthelburg drove the rebel Ealdberht out of Taunton. However, this interpretation is rarely accepted today. Ealdberht fled first to Surrey and soon afterwards to Sussex , dependent, but at this time rich, striving for autonomy, into exile. He was nicknamed Wræcca ("expellee, exile, refugee"). Ine followed him and there were still battles in 722 with the southern Saxons, who had evidently allied themselves with Ealdberht. In 725 there was renewed fighting in Ines against Sussex in which Ealdberht fell.

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  1. a b c D. P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , pp. 111-112.
  2. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 721
  3. Diana E. Greenway et al. (Ed.): Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon. Historia Anglorum: The History of the English People , Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-19-822224-8 , pp. 226-227.
  4. a b Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 722
  5. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Old English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 2003, online
  6. Ealdberht 13  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: 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)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk  
  7. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 725