Alberht of East Anglia

Aethelberht I. (also: Alberht or Ethælbert ) was a king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia in the mid- 8th century. To Æthelberhts life no contemporary reports were handed down.

Life

With Ælfwalds death in 749 extinguished the dynasty of Wuffinger. The kingdom was divided between Hunbeanna and Alberht ( Aethelberht I. ). According to another opinion followed Ælfwald the three jointly ruling kings Hun, Beorna and Aethelberht I., of which only Beorna and Aethelberht are unequivocally proven by the discovery of coins as kings.

In Burrow Hill ( Suffolk ) in the early 1980s, one marked by the mint master Tilræd Æthelberhts coin was found in the king Ethælbert name is engraved in runic script. Æthelberhts rule ended around the year 760

Swell

  • Symeon of Durham: Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum the year 749
  • John of Worcester: Chronicon
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