Mul

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Mul († 687 ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent from 686 until his death .

Life

The graves of the Kentish kings Eadbald († 640), Hlothhere († 685), Wihtred († 725) and Mul († 687) in today's St. Augustine Abbey . (left to right)

Mul was from the Wessex house . His father was Cenberht ; his mother's name is unknown. His brother Caedwalla was King of Wessex from 685 to 688 . In 686 Caedwalla and Mul began several campaigns to subdue the south and east of England. Caedwalla thus gained control of Sussex and the Isle of Wight . Then he finally conquered Kent in 686 in alliance with King Sighere of Essex . Caedwalla then installed his brother Mul as sub-king in Kent. The fate of King Eadrics is unclear: According to the Venerable Bede died Eadric 686 for one and a half years in power, that is, during these struggles. Other sources give the date of death August 31, 687.

Mul sold around 686 large estates in Sudaneie (on the Isle of Thanet ) and at Sturry to the abbess Æbbe of the Minster-in-Thanet monastery. As early as 687 a rebellion broke out, during which Mul and twelve of his followers were burned. Oswine from the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas , who was facing a campaign of revenge by Caedwalla, was proclaimed the new king . In 694 King Wihtred of Kent paid 30,000 pæneġas (see: Penny ; about 37.5 kg of silver) as wergeld for Mul to Ine of Wessex.

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  1. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 685
  2. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 686
  3. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 30.
  4. ↑ Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 4,26 , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
  5. ↑ Annales Lindisfarnenses et Cantuarienses , MGH SS IV, p. 2.
  6. ↑ S10
  7. ↑ a b Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 687
  8. ↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 49.
  9. ^ Ian Blanchard: Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages: Asiatic supremacy, 425-1125, Vol. 1 , Steiner, 2001, ISBN 978-3-515-07958-7 , p. 443.
  10. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 694
predecessor Office successor
Eadric King of Kent
686–687 		Oswine
personal data
SURNAME Mul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Kent
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 687