Eadberht II.

Eadberht II (also: Eadbertus, Edbertus, Ædbertus ) was from 762 to around 764 a King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.

The source location to Eadberht is sparse and contradictory: John of Worcester, a historian of the 12th century, wrote in the Chronicon ex chronicis that Eadberht III. Præn ( 796-798 ) the brother Æthelberhts II was and sat with this Eadberht I or II Eadberht same. Some modern historians hold Eadberht I. and Eadberht II ( 762 to 764 ) for identical people.

Life

Eadberht was the last ruler of the dynasty of the Kentish Oiscingas. His parents are unknown. Maybe Aethelberht II was his father or grandfather.

When King Aethelberht II died in 762 was Eadberht II succeeded him as king. However, Kent was under the hegemony of Mercia, whose king Offa dominated the whole of southern England. Three Charters of Eadberht II or their transcripts remained. The Charter S32 authenticated Sigered, the co-regent in the west of Kent, in the year 762, a donation of arable land at Rochester to Bishop Eardwulf for the local monastery. Eadberht II confirmed the land grant with his hands. The Charter S28 authenticated Eadberht 762/763, the gift of arable land at Mundelingeham ( Great Mongeham at Dover ) and the rights to use a wood at the St. Peter's Abbey in Canterbury. With this donation Eadberht linked the desire as his " ancestors " to be buried in the Abbey. The Charter granted to the abbess S29 Sigeburga of St. Peter's Cathedral on the Isle of Thanet to 763/764 tax exemption for three ships. Eadberht was illiterate and signed with a cross, which he ( " with his own hand " ) sat propria manu.

Around the year 764 was the reign of Eadberht II over on Eanmund. The circumstances of the succession are unknown. Thomas Elmham, a chronicler of the 15th century, reported that Eadberht was buried in Reculver. Maybe unrest prevented the type of Eadberht burial in Canterbury,

Swell

  • Charter S28
  • Charter S29
  • Charter S32
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