Ealric

Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Ealric (also Alric, Alricus ; * before 716) had been co-king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent since 725 .

Life

Ealric came from the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas . He was a son of King Wihtred (690 / 691-725) and his third wife Wærburg. Wihtred died on April 23, 725. Heirs of the kingdom were his three sons Æthelberht II. , Eadberht I and Ealric. Besides these mentions in a charter and by Beda Venerabilis there is no other contemporary evidence of Ealric.

As the eldest of the brothers, Æthelberht received East Kent and the supremacy, Eadberht ruled in West Kent, while Ealric, who then disappeared from the sources, was probably a subordinate co-king. Presumably Ealric died soon after.

William of Malmesbury , a 12th century historian, set the reign of Ealric, as the successor to his brothers, in the years 762 to 796. As a result, he would have outlived his father by more than 70 years, which modern historians consider very unlikely and therefore predominantly following Bede assume the common rule of the three brothers from 725 onwards.

swell

Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)

literature

DE Greenway, BF Harvey, Michael Lapidge (Eds.): Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings. General Introduction and Commentary Vol. 2 (Oxford Medieval Texts) , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0198206828 .
John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0
Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)
DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , London-New York Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110

Web links

Alric 2 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Ealrich in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c S22
↑ Bede: HE 5.23
^ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 21.
^ DE Greenway, BF Harvey, Michael Lapidge (eds.): Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings. General Introduction and Commentary Vol. 2 (Oxford Medieval Texts) , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0198206828 , pp. 25-26.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wihtred	King of Kent 725–? together with Æthelberht II. and Eadberht I.	Æthelberht II. Eadberht I.

personal data
SURNAME	Ealric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alric; Alricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Fellow King in Kent
DATE OF BIRTH	before 716
DATE OF DEATH	8th century

[s22-1] S22

[he5-23-2] Bede: HE 5.23

[3] John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 21.

[4] DE Greenway, BF Harvey, Michael Lapidge (eds.): Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings. General Introduction and Commentary Vol. 2 (Oxford Medieval Texts) , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0198206828 , pp. 25-26.