Æthelberht was the son of Eormenric, succeeding him as king, according to the Chronicle. He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert I, 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.
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.
Æthelberht of Kent
King of Kent
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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. Wikipedia
Born: 560 AD, Kingdom of Kent
Died: February 24, 616 AD (age 56 years), Kent, United Kingdom
Children: Eadbald of Kent, Æthelburh of Kent, and Æðelwald
Spouse: Bertha of Kent
Place of burial: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Parents: Eormenric of Kent
Grandchildren: Eorcenberht of Kent, Eanflæd, Eormenred of Kent, and more
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