Æthelberht, King of Wessex
King of Wessex
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He held Wessex for five years in the 860s, a brief rule wedged between his brother Æthelbald's death and the Viking storm that would break after his own. The kingdom was united under him for the first time, then passed quietly to the next brother in line.
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Æthelberht was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh, first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The following year his father went on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed the oldest surviving son, Æthelbald, as king of Wessex while Æthelberht became king of the recently conquered territory of Kent. He may have surrendered his position when his father returned but resumed the south-eastern kingship when Æthelwulf died in 858. When Æthelbald died in 860, Æthelberht united both territories under his rule — Wessex and Kent were fully united for the first time, with no sub-ki…
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