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Æthelberht ( / ˈæθəlbərt /; 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.
Æthelburh of Kent (born c. 601, sometimes spelled Æthelburg, Ethelburga, Æthelburga; Old English: Æþelburh, Æðelburh, Æðilburh, also known as Tate or Tata), was an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin.
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.
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Selected laws of Aethelbert of Kent, 601-604. 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.
Apr 5, 2013 · Friday 5 April 2013. The story of Æthelburh of Kent. Ethelburga in her mother's church at St Martin's, Canterbury. April 5 is the anniversary of the death of Æthelburh, the daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent, the first Anglo-Saxon king to accept Christianity.
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Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he is referred to as a bretwalda, or "Britain-ruler".
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.
