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The Kingdom of the Kentish (Old English: Cantwara rīce; Latin: Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century AD until it was fully absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex in the late 9th century and later into ...
- History of Kent
East Kent became one of the kingdoms of the Jutes during the...
- List of monarchs of Kent
This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of...
- History of Kent
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Kent, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom that received the first Roman mission to the Anglo-Saxons, and for its distinctive social and
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East Kent became one of the kingdoms of the Jutes during the 5th century (see Kingdom of Kent). The early Medieval inhabitants of the county were known as the Cantwara or Kentish people, whose capital (the only town called a metropolis by Bede) was at Canterbury.
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 ...
Learn about the history and geography of Kent, a former kingdom in southeast England founded by Jutish brothers in the 5th century. Find out how Kent became Christian, lost its independence, and preserved its archbishopric.
Jul 20, 1998 · Kent, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. It is bordered to the southwest by East Sussex, to the west by Surrey, to the northwest by Greater London, to the north by the Thames estuary, to the northeast by the North Sea,
The Kingdom of Kent was the first Anglo-Saxon kingdom. The Jutes, a group from southern Scandinavia, settled on the coast of Kent after the Romans left Britain. They ruled the lands to the east of the River Stour, which runs through Canterbury. Many of the early artefacts made in Kent have a distinctive ‘Kentish’ style, influenced by Jute art.
