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Ealhmund of Kent

Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784. He is reputed to be the father of King Egbert who was King of Wessex and, later, King of Kent.

Contents

  • Biography 1
  • See also 2
  • Notes 3
  • References 4
  • External links 5

Biography

He is not known to have struck any coins,[1] and the only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver.[2] By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to have been ruling directly, as he issued a charter [3] without any mention of a local king.

General consensus among historians is this is the same Ealhmund found in two pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great.[4] The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry (covering years 855–859) describing the death of Æthelwulf, both make King Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of King Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic,[5] and therefore a member of the House of Wessex (see House of Wessex family tree). A further entry has been added in a later hand to the 784 annal, reporting Ealhmund's reign in Kent.

Finally, in the Wessex.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Grierson and Blackburn, p. 269
  2. ^ "S 38". Anglo-Saxons.net. Retrieved 2012-02-10. 
  3. ^ "S 123". Anglo-Saxons.net. Retrieved 2012-02-10. 
  4. ^ a b Bierbrier, p. 382
  5. ^ Garmonsway, pp. xxxii, 2, 4
  6. ^ Garmonsway, pp. xxxix-xxxx, 52
  7. ^ Kelley
  8. ^ Edwards, "Ecgberht"

References

  • Bierbrier, M.L., "Genealogical Flights of Fancy. Old Assumptions, New Sources", Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2:379–87.
  • Edwards, Heather (2004). "Ecgberht [Egbert] (d. 839), king of the West Saxons". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.   (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  • Garmonsway, G.N. ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
  • Grierson, Philip; Blackburn, Mark (2006). Medieval European Coinage, With A Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  
  • Kelley, David H., "The House of Aethelred", in Brooks, Lindsay L., ed., Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans. Salt Lake City: The Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Occasional Publication, No. 2, pp. 63–93.

External links

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Year 784 Mention of his reign.
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Ecgberht II 		King of Kent
784 		Succeeded by
Eadberht III Præn
  • 1 Also monarch of Mercia
  • 2 Also monarch of East Anglia and Mercia
  • 3 Also monarch of Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Mercia
  • 4 Also monarch of Wessex
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