Virtually every modern description of this mission mentions Queen Bertha of Kent. She has gone down in legend as the Christian queen who influenced her pagan husband, King Æthelberht, in Augustine's favour.
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Queen of Kent and religious founder. Born around 565 in Paris; died around 616 in Kent, England; daughter of Cherebert also known as Caribert or Charibert I ...
St. Bertha (virgin and martyr). Abbess of Val d'Or, near Avenay, Reims, d. about 690. She was wife of St. Gumbert, Lord of Champenois, a nobleman of royal ...
She married the pagan Aethelbert, King of Kent, who promised her the freedom to exercise her own Christian religion. She took as her chaplain to England ...