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The Kingdom of the Kentish (Old English: Cantwara rīce; Latin: Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century AD until it was fully absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex in the mid-9th century and later into the ...
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 ...
East Kent became one of the kingdoms of the Jutes during the 5th century (see Kingdom of Kent). The early Medieval inhabitants of the county were known as the Cantwara or Kentish people, whose capital (the only town called a metropolis by Bede [ 8 ] ) was at Canterbury .
Pages in category "History of Kent" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. ... Kingdom of Kent; Thomas Kingsmill (Hawkhurst Gang) L. Lathe ...
Further mention of events in Kent occurs in the late sixth century history of the Franks by Gregory of Tours. This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom. [ 14 ] Some of Pope Gregory the Great 's letters concern the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597; these letters also mention the state of Kent and its ...
Kentish was a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian (known collectively as the Anglian dialects), and West Saxon.
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When the Jutish kingdom of Kent was founded, around the middle of the 5th century, Roman ways and influences must have still had a strong presence. The Roman settlement of Durovernum Cantiacorum became Canterbury. The people of Kent were described as Cantawara, a Germanised form of the Latin Cantiaci. [34]