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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.
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 ...
Ecgberht I (also spelled Egbert) (died 4 July 673) was a king of Kent (664-673), succeeding his father Eorcenberht. [1]He may have still been a child when he became king following his father's death on 14 July 664, because his mother Seaxburh was recorded as having been regent.
Historians do not agree on Ecgberht's ancestry. The earliest version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Parker Chronicle, begins with a genealogical preface tracing the ancestry of Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf back through Ecgberht, Ealhmund (thought to be king Ealhmund of Kent), and the otherwise unknown Eafa and Eoppa to Ingild, brother of King Ine of Wessex, who abdicated the throne in 726.
Cædwalla was subsequently driven out of Sussex by two of Æthelwealh's ealdormen, Berhthun and Andhun. William of Malmesbury suggests that Eadric became king of the South Saxon kingdom at that time. [7] Then in 686, Cædwalla, now king of Wessex, and his brother Mul, removed Eadric from power and made Mul king of Kent. [d] [6]
According to Bede, Eorcenberht of Kent, who ruled from 640 to 664, was the first king to begin trying to eliminate heathen cult activities. This reluctance shown in the early stages of Christianisation has been argued to have resulted from the need to balance the demands of the Church, practicalities of placating local elites and maintenance of ...
The Duke of Kent, the oldest working member of the royal family, was joined by his wife the Duchess of Kent as he was serenaded with Happy Birthday on the bagpipes on the day he turned 89.
Seaxburh was connected with the royal family of the Magonsætan by her marriage to Eorcenberht, who was king of Kent from 640 to 664. Eorcenberht was the great-uncle of Mildburh and her sisters, the daughters of King Merewalh of the Magonsætan. [4] Their sons Ecgberht and Hlothhere both became kings of Kent.