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Æthelberht (/ ˈ æ θ əl b ər t /; also Æthelbert, Aethelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert; Old English: Æðelberht [ˈæðelberˠxt]; c. 550 – 24 February 616) was King of Kent from about 589 until his death.
Aethelberht I (died Feb. 24, 616 or 618) was the king of Kent (560–616) who issued the first extant code of Anglo-Saxon laws. Reflecting some continental influence, the code established the legal position of the clergy and instituted many secular regulations.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The laws of King Æthelbert of Kent are the first surviving example we have of Anglo Saxon law codes. Why Ælthebert? The king was the first Anglo Saxon king to convert to Christianity, heavily influenced by his Frankish wife Bertha. This brought also the use of the Church to him – one of whose talents was literacy.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Learn about the first Christian Anglo-Saxon monarchs of England, who ruled Kent from 589 to 616. See their statues on Lady Wootton's Green near Canterbury Christ Church University.
St. Aethelbert I of Kent, King of Kent. (c.AD 540-616) St. Aethelbert was the son and successor of Ermenric, King of Kent, and great great grandson of Hengist, the first of the Saxon conquerors of Britain. He reigned for fifty-six years over the oldest kingdom of the Heptarchy.
Aethelberht was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, who succeeded to the subkingdom of Kent during the lifetime of his father Aethelwulf and retained it until the death of his elder brother Aethelbald, when he became sole king of Wessex and Kent, the younger brothers Aethelred and Alfred.
The laws of Æthelberht of Kent, the first page of the only manuscript copy, the Textus Roffensis, from the collection of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, now housed in the Kent County Archives in Maidstone. The photograph is from the frontispiece of H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation from Æthelberht to Magna Carta
