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Eadbald (Old English: Eadbald) was King of Kent from 616 until his death in 640. He was the son of King Æthelberht and his wife Bertha , a daughter of the Merovingian king Charibert . [ 1 ] Æthelberht made Kent the dominant force in England during his reign and became the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon ...
This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.. The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede.Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with ...
It may be that Æthelberht was king of east Kent and Eadbald became king of west Kent; the east Kent king seems generally to have been the dominant ruler later in Kentish history. Whether or not Eadbald became a joint king with Æthelberht, there is no question that Æthelberht had authority throughout the kingdom. [21]
Eadbald became king of Kent on the death of his father on 24 February 616, or possibly 618. Although Æthelberht had been Christian since around 600 and his wife Bertha was also Christian, Eadbald was a pagan and led a strong reaction against the Gregorian mission, refusing to be baptised and marrying his stepmother, Æthelberht's second wife.
Eadbald made a second marriage, to a Christian named Emma, who is identified in the annals of St Augustine's Abbey as the daughter of a Frankish king - implying Emma, daughter of Theudebert. [ 2 ] However, S. E. Kelly, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , holds that the belief that Eadbald married a daughter of Theudebert is ...
Eadbald of Kent; Eadberht II; Eadbert I of Kent; Eadric of Kent; Ealhmund of Kent; Eanmund of Kent; Eardwulf of Kent; Ecgberht of Kent; Ecgberht, King of Wessex; Ecgberht II of Kent; Eorcenberht of Kent; Eormenred of Kent; Eormenric of Kent
The marriage of Eadbald's Merovingian mother Bertha had resulted in the conversion of Kent and Æthelburg's would do the same in Northumbria. [9] Edwin's expansion to the west may have begun early in his reign. There is firm evidence of a war waged in the early 620s between Edwin and Fiachnae mac Báetáin of the Dál nAraidi, king of the Ulaid ...
Eanswith was a princess of the Kingdom of Kent.Her father was Eadbald, who ruled as king of Kent from 616 to 640.Her mother, Eadbald's second wife, was Emma, who may have been a Frankish princess; she also bore him two sons, Eormenred and Eorcenberht.