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Æthelberht (Old English: Æðelbrihte, ÆÞelberhte), also called Saint Ethelbert the King (c. 774 – 20 May 794) was an 8th-century saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Little is known of his reign, which may have begun in 779, according to later sources ...
[33] [35] An alternative interpretation, however, is that the passage in Bede should be translated as "Rædwald, king of the East Angles, who while Æthelberht lived, even conceded to him the military leadership of his people"; if this is Bede's intent, then East Anglia firmly was under Æthelberht's overlordship. [36]
King Eorcenberht married Seaxburh, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, and ruled as a Christian king: he was the first ruler to order the abandonment and destruction of idols throughout his kingdom, and to establish the forty days' fast of Lent to be observed by royal authority (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, iii,8
In 869 a Danish army defeated and killed the last native East Anglian king, Edmund the Martyr. [3] The kingdom then fell into the hands of the Danes and eventually formed part of the Danelaw. [3] In 918 the East Anglian Danes accepted the overlordship of Edward the Elder of Wessex. East Anglia then became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England.
Æthelberht of Kent (c. 550–616), King of Kent; Æthelred and Æthelberht (died c. 669), possibly legendary princes of Kent, saints and martyrs; Æthelberht, king of the Hwicce (fl. 692–693) Æthelbert of Sussex (fl. 8th century), King of Sussex; Alberht of East Anglia (8th century), also Æthelberht I of East Anglia, ruler of East Anglia
Alberht of East Anglia became king of the East Angles after his predecessor Ælfwald died in 749, after ruling for thirty-six years. [2] During Ælfwald's rule, East Anglia enjoyed sustained growth and stability, albeit under the senior authority of the Mercian king Æthelbald , [ 3 ] who ruled his kingdom from 716 until he was murdered by his ...
Æthelbert II (Old English: Æðelberht; c. 725–762) was king of Kent. Upon the death of his father Wihtred, [1] the kingdom was ruled by Æthelbert II and his brothers Eadberht I and Alric. Æthelbert seems to have outlived both of his brothers and later reigned jointly with his nephew Eardwulf.
Saint Ethelbert the King can refer to one of two different canonized kings of that name: Æthelberht II of East Anglia d. 20 May 794. Martyred. Æthelberht of Kent c. 550 – 24 February 616. Anglo-Saxon king converted to Christianity by Augustine of Canterbury