This is a list of the kings of the
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...
Kingdom of Kent
la, Regnum Cantuariorum
, conventional_long_name = Kingdom of the Kentish
, common_name = Kent
, era = Heptarchy
, status = vassal
, status_text =
, government_type = Monarchy ...
.
The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from
Bede
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...
. 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 confused by concurrent reigns and kings with similar or identical names. It is commonplace for the later kings to be referred to as subkings, but the actual rank used is always ''rex'', never ''regulus'' (except for a late legend concerning Eormenred). The usual style was simply King of Kent (''rex Cantiae'') or King of the Kentish Men (''rex Cantuariorum''). Territorial division within Kent is not alluded to, except by Eadberht I (''rex Cantuariorum terram dimidii'') and Sigered (''rex dimidie partis prouincie Cantuariorum'').
List of kings of Kent
See also
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List of English monarchs
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Kingdom of Wessex, Wessex, one of the heptarchy, seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled ...
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Kentish Royal Legend
The Kentish Royal Legend is a diverse group of Medieval texts which describe a wide circle of members of the royal family of Kent from the 7th to 8th centuries AD. Key elements include the descendants of Æthelberht of Kent over the next four ge ...
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Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript tradition based in the 8th to 10th centuries.
The genealogies trace the succession of th ...
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On the Resting-Places of the Saints
''On the Resting-Places of the Saints'' is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as ''Þá hálgan'' and the ''Secgan'', which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving m ...
(list of Anglo-Saxon saints - ''Secgan'')
Sources
*Campbell, A. 1973. Charters of Rochester. ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'' 1.
*Fryde, E. B., Greenway, D. E., Porter, S., & Roy, I. 1986. Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd ed. ''Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks'' 2.
*Garmonsway, G. N. 1954. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 2nd edition.
*Kelly, S. E. 1995. Charters of St. Augustine's Abbey Canterbury and Minster-in-Thanet. ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'' 4.
*King, J. E. 1930. Baedae Opera Historica. ''Loeb Classical Library'' 246 & 248.
*Kirby, D. P. 1991. ''The Earliest English Kings''.
*Sawyer, P. H. 1968. Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography. ''Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks'' 8.
*Searle, W. G. 1899. ''Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles.''
*Sweet, H. 1896. ''The Student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon''.
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Yorke, B. 1990. ''Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England''.
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