Cuthred of Kent

Cuthred (also Cudrædus, Cuthredus, Cuðred, Cuþred; † 807) was 798-807 King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.

Life

Family

Cuthred descended from a collateral branch of the royal house of Mercia. His father was the Ealdorman Cuthberht; His mother's name is unknown. Cuthreds brothers Cenwulf ( 796-821 ) and Ceolwulf ( 821-823 ) were successively kings of Mercia. Cuthreds son Cenwald ( † after 811 ) is occupied by the Charter S39 from the year 805.

Rule

Kent was advised in 785 under the reign of King Offa of Mercia. Broke shortly before Offa's death in 796 in Kent from a revolt. Eadberht III. Præn was proclaimed in Kent as an independent king. Offa's successor Cenwulf could crush the rebellion in the year 798, and deploy his brother Cuthred as a sub- king in Kent.

Between 800 and 807 had Cuthred coins minted in Canterbury. The approximately 50 surviving pieces have numerous variants. Most conspicuously, from about 804 except the name is also a portrait of the king was minted in the coin.

With the licentia (, permission ') his brother Cenwulf Cuthred sold in 805 lands at Hrithra leah ( at Petham, south of Canterbury ) to Wulfred ( 805-832 ), Archbishop of Canterbury. A charter from the year 805 has a land transfer to Selethryth, Abbess of Lyminge, to content. 805/807, he sold land to Æthelnoth, his Prefect mandrels at Heagyðe ( Eythorne at Dover ). Also Cenwulf pursued his interests in Kent, raised in his charters S157 (801) S159 (804) S160 (804 ), and S161 ( 805), however, always the correspondence with Cuthred forth. A charter of Archbishop Æthelheard ( 792-805 ) has 805 signed as a witness Cuthred. After Cuthred had died in the year 807 in Kent his kingdom was re- incorporated as a province of Mercia and was under the direct control Cenwulfs.

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