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(@ ‘rochester cathedral’)
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(560 – 616)
(died at ‘age 56’)
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/ˈæθəlbərt/
(also Æthelbert, Aethelberht, Aethelbert, or Ethelbert, Old English Æðelberht /ˈæðelberxt/;
c. 560 – 24 February 616
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(“Æthelberht” was ‘king of kent’ from about ‘589’ until his death)
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(the 8th-century monk ‘bede’, in his ecclesiastical history of the english people, lists him as the 3rd king to hold imperium over other ‘anglo-saxon kingdoms’)
(in the late 9th century anglo-saxon chronicle he is referred to as a ‘bretwalda’, or “britain-ruler”)
(he was the first english king to convert to “christianity”)
(Æthelberht was the son of ‘eormenric’, succeeding him as king, according to the “chronicle”)
(he married ‘bertha’ (the christian daughter of ‘charibert’, king of the franks), thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary ‘western europe’; the marriage probably took place before he came to the throne)
(bertha’s influence may have led to pope gregory I’s decision to send ‘augustine’ as a missionary from ‘rome’)
(‘augustine’ landed on the ‘isle of thanet’ in ‘east kent’ in ‘597’)
(shortly thereafter, Æthelberht converted to ‘christianity’, churches were established, and wider-scale conversion to ‘christianity’ began in the kingdom)
(he provided the new church with land in ‘canterbury’, thus establishing one of the foundation stones of what ultimately became the “anglican communion”)
(Æthelberht’s law for ‘kent’ (the earliest written code in any ‘germanic language’) instituted a complex system of ‘fines’; the law code is preserved in the “textus roffensis”)
(‘kent’ was rich, with strong trade ties to the continent, and he may have instituted ‘royal control’ over ‘trade’)
(‘coinage’ probably began circulating in ‘kent’ during his reign for the first time since the ‘anglo-saxon invasion’)
(he later came to be regarded as a ‘saint’ for his role in establishing ‘christianity’ among the “anglo-saxons”)
(his ‘feast day’ was originally ‘february 24th’, but was changed to ‘february 25th’)
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