Heahberht (Kent)

Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Heahberht (also: Heaberht, Heaberhtus ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent from 764/765 to 785 .

Life

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

This constellation meant that Heahberht had to agree to the donation of land by the Kentish king Ecgberht II. In one case, Offa's licentia (permission) was still required as a representative of the hegemonic power . In the third charter, too, Heahberht only fulfilled the role of the consenting contract witness. Heahberht and his fellow king Ecgberht II turned against the supremacy of Mercias. Both had new coins minted in Canterbury based on the model of Carolingian denarii . In addition to their mercantile function, the coins were also a political symbol against mercian hegemony. Archbishop Jænberht of Canterbury (765–792) seems to have recognized the desire for autonomy of the two Kentish kings. Heahberht's further fate is unknown. Ecgberht won a victory over Offa at the Battle of Otford in 776 and presumably ruled all of Kent as an independent king for the next few years.

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literature

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)
Joanna Story: Carolingian connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 , Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7546-0124-1 .
Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .

Web links

Heahberht 5 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Heahberht in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

^ ^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.
↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.
↑ p37
↑ P34
↑ P105
^ Joanna Story: Carolingian connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 , Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7546-0124-1 , pp. 192-193.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eanmund	King of Kent 764 / 765–785	Ecgberht II.

personal data
SURNAME	Heahberht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heaberht, Heaberhtus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King in Kent
DATE OF BIRTH	8th century
DATE OF DEATH	8th century

[enc501-1] 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.

[babs31-2] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.

[3] 37

[4] P34

[5] P105

[6] Joanna Story: Carolingian connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 , Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7546-0124-1 , pp. 192-193.