Sigered (Kent)

Kent in Anglo-Saxon times

Sigered (also Sigeredus, Sigiraed, Sigiræd ; † around 764) was from before 762 to around 764 co-king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent .

Life

With Eardwulf's death before 762, the rule of the Kentish dynasty of the Oiscingas in western Kent ended. He was succeeded by Sigered, who probably came from the royal dynasty of Essex . In the east of Kent, Æthelberht II ruled , followed by Eadberht II in 762 .

Two charters or copies of them have survived from Sigered's reign . With the Charter S32 Sigered notarized a donation of arable land near Rochester to Bishop Eardwulf for the local monastery in 762 . Eadberht II also confirmed this donation of land with his show of hands . 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 (around 764–765?), The king of East Kent.

The rule of Sigered and Eanmund ended around the year 764 when Offa , King of Mercia , took control of Kent. Offa set Ecgberht II in western Kent and Heahberht in eastern Kent as vassal kings. Presumably Sigered died around 764 in these power struggles.

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literature

Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
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)
William Hunt : Sigered (fl . 762) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 52: Shearman - Smirke. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, p. 246 (English ,, partly outdated state of research).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 24, de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017575-2 , pp. 298-299.
↑ 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. 33-38.
↑ Charter S32
↑ Charter S33
↑ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.
↑ 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.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eardwulf	King of West Kent before 762 – about 764	Ecgberht II.

personal data
SURNAME	Sigered
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sigeredus; Sigiraed; Sigiræd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Fellow King in Kent
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH	at 764

[rga24-298-1] Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 24, de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017575-2 , pp. 298-299.

[rga22-33-2] 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. 33-38.

[3] Charter S32

[4] Charter S33

[babs31-5] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England , Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 31.

[enc501-6] 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.