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Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Eormenred (also Ermenred, Irminred ; † before 664) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent since 640 at the latest . He came from the Oiscingas dynasty .

Life

Eormenred was a son of King Eadbald and his second wife Emma (also Æmma or Ymme), the daughter of a Frankish king , perhaps Chlothars II. Some historians assume that Emma was the daughter of Erchinoald , the Frankish housekeeper in Neustria . Eormenred was married to Oslava, with whom he had at least four children: the sons Æthelred and Æthelberht, as well as the daughters Eormenburg (also Domneva, Æbbe, Eafe; ∞ Merewalh, sub-king of the Magonsæte) and Eormengyth. John of Worcester , a 12th century historian, named Æthelthryth as another daughter in his Chronicon ex chronicis .

At first Eadbald seems to have an otherwise unknown Æthelwald and later his son Eormenred involved in the rule. Eadbald died in 640 and his son Earconberht I succeeded him as king, probably together with Eormenred. Eormenred seems to have died before his brother Earconberht († 664), under whose protection his sons Æthelred and Æthelberht grew up. Eormenreds sons were murdered at the instigation of their cousin, King Ecgberhts (664–673) of Thunor. Eormenred's line was thus eliminated from the line of succession and the inner-dynastic power struggle came to an end.

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  1. ↑ Barbara Yorke: The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain , 600-800, Pearson, 2006, ISBN 978-0-582-77292-2 , p. 65.
  2. ↑ EB Fryde et al. (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 , p. 13.
  3. ↑ a b c D. P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , pp. 36-37.
  4. ↑ Eormenburg and Æbbe (Eafe) are represented partly as identical, partly as different people. see: Mary Dockray-Miller: Motherhood and mothering in Anglo-Saxon England , Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 978-0312227210 , p. 19.
  5. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 32.
  6. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 35.
  7. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 640 Online in Project Gutenberg (English)
predecessor Office successor
Eadbald King of Kent
before 640– before 664
together with Earconberht I. 		Earconberht I.
personal data
SURNAME Enormous red
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermenred; Irminred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 7th century