Eadbert I of Kent

Eadberht I. (also: Eadbert, Eadbertus, Eadberctus, Eadbriht, Eadbryht, Ædbeortus; † 748 ) was 725-748, together with his brothers Aethelberht II and, initially, with Ealric co-regent of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.

Life

Eadberht came from the Kentish dynasty of Oiscingas. He was a son of the king Wihtred ( 690/691-725 ). His mother was either Cynegyth, Æthelburg or Wærburg, one of the three wives Wihtreds.

On April 23, 725 Wihtred died. Heirs of the kingdom were his three sons Aethelberht II, Eadberht I. and Ealric. Aethelberht was the eldest of the brothers to the East Kent and the supremacy Eadberht reigned in West Kent, while Ealric, who disappeared on it from source, probably subordinate co-regent was. Probably Ealric died soon after. In contrast to this now widely accepted representation, called the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Eadberht as the sole heir to the throne. From the period between 699/716 and 748 several charters or their copies have survived carrying Eadberhts characters. Eadberht was illiterate and signed with a cross, which he ( " with his own hand " ) sat propria manu. The documents have land grants and privileges for monasteries to content. 731 Before Kent came under the suzerainty Mercia, whose king Aethelbald came to dominate the whole of southern England. Eadberht died in 748 and his son Eardwulf was in the West Kent's successor as king. Aethelberht survived Eadberht and reigned as king of Upper to 762 in the East Kent.

The source location to Eadberht is sparse and contradictory: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that his brother Aethelberht II his successor was. 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.

Swell

Alric of Kent Wihtred of Kent Eardwulf of Kent Eadberht II. Internet History Sourcebooks Project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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