Æthelberht
King of Kent from 589 · Historical Figures · Lived 552 to 612 · aged 60
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Something wrong?Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
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Sculpture of Æthelberht on Canterbury Cathedral in England![The entry for 827 in the [C] ms. (one of the Abingdon manuscripts) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, listing the eight bretwaldas; Æthelberht's name, spelled "Æþelbriht", is the second-to-last word on the fifth line](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Entry_for_827_in_the_Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle%2C_which_lists_the_eight_bretwaldas.gif/500px-Entry_for_827_in_the_Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle%2C_which_lists_the_eight_bretwaldas.gif)
The entry for 827 in the [C] ms. (one of the Abingdon manuscripts) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, listing the eight bretwaldas; Æthelberht's name, spelled "Æþelbriht", is the second-to-last word on the fifth line
Stained-glass window of Æthelberht from the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford
The first page of the twelfth-century manuscript of Æthelberht's law code
A thrymsa from the reign of Eadbald, Æthelberht's son. None of the coins are known to carry Æthelberht's name, although they may have been minted during his reign.
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Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late-ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he is referred to as a bretwalda, or "Britain-ruler". He was the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity.
Historical Figures born in the 550s 6
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