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 ...
Queen Bertha was the wife of King Ethelbert of Kent. She is was a pivotal figure to the spread of Christianity in the late 6th century.