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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 ...
Golden buckle from Finglesham, interpreted as connected to the cult of Wōden and suggested to date to the time of Eadbald's heathen resurgence in the 7th century. [41] 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 ...
Emma was a daughter of the Frankish king Theudebert II, who ruled Austrasia from 595 to 612. He had previously shown little interest in the Kingdom of Kent , but Gregory the Great had written to him in 601, encouraging him to back Paulinus and Mellitus ' missionary campaign, which was to be based in Canterbury .
In the Kentish royal legend, Eormenred is described as a son of Eadbald, who was King of Kent from 616 to 640, [1] and his second wife Emma, who may have been a Frankish princess. "Eormenred" is a name of Frankish origin, as is that of his brother, Eorcenberht. [1]
After his father Wihtred of Kent died, he inherited the kingdom of Kent along with his two brothers Æðelberht II and Alric. Æðelberht II seems to have been the eldest and dominant brother. Eadberht I died in 748, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. He left a son, Eardwulf, who succeeded as king jointly with his uncle.
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.
Eorcenberht married Seaxburh of Ely, [5] daughter of king Anna of East Anglia. They had two sons, Ecgberht and Hlothhere, who each consecutively became king of Kent, and two daughters who both were eventually canonized: Saint Eorcengota became a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey on the continent, and Saint Ermenilda became abbess at Ely.