Eanmund

Signature (cross) Eanmunds under Charter S33 in Textus Roffensis f. 126v

Eanmund (also Eanmundus ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent around 764/765 . Eanmund may be identical to Ealhmund , who ruled Kent from 779/784 to 784/785.

Life

Eanmund's origin is unknown. Around the year 764, the rule of East Kent passed from Eadberht II , the last ruler of the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas , to Eanmund. The details of the succession to the throne are unknown. In the west of Kent Sigered ruled (before 762 - around 764).

Charter S33 dates from the period between 762 and 764. In it Sigired referred to himself as rex dimidie partis prouincie Cantuariorum (“King of the Half Province of Kent”). In her, Sigered transferred lands at Aeslingaham (Islingham near Frindsbury) and grazing rights in western Weald to Bishop Eardwulf. This document was confirmed by Eanmund.

The kings Sigered (West Kent) and Eanmund (East Kent) disappeared from the sources when Offa (757–796), King of Mercia , gained supremacy over Kent around 764. Offa set Ecgberht II (around 764-779 / 784) in western Kent and Heahberht (764 / 765-?) In eastern Kent as vassal kings.

swell

Charter S33

literature

Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon D. Keynes (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 0-631-22492-0
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)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 22.
^ Eanmund in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
↑ 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.
^ ^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.
↑ Charter S33
↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eadberht II.	King of East Kent about 764– about 765	Heahberht

personal data
SURNAME	Eanmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eanmundus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King in Kent
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH	8th century or 9th century

[1] John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 22.

[2] Eanmund in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

[3] 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.

[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.

[5] Charter S33

[babs31-6] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.