Wihtred

Role: King of Kent · First appears: A.D. 685–721

Life events

694 · The people of Kent covenanted with Ina and paid him 30,000 pounds.(A.D. 685–721 · 📍 Bapchild)
- With: Ina
- “This year the people of Kent covenanted with Ina, and gave him 30,000 pounds in friendship, because they had burned his brother Mull.”
694 · Wihtred decreed that church property should remain dedicated to the church.(A.D. 685–721 · 📍 Bapchild)
- “I will that all the minsters and the churches, that were given and bequeathed to the worship of God in the days of believing kings, my predecessors, and in the days of my relations of King Ethelbert and of those that followed him--shall so remain to the worship of God, and stand fast for evermore.”
725 · Wihtred died, and Eadbert succeeded him as king of Kent.(A.D. 722–760)
- With: Eadbert king of Kent
- “This year died Wihtred, King of Kent, on the ninth day before the calends of May, after a reign of thirty-two winters. His pedigree is above; and he was succeeded by Eadbert.”

parent: Egbert son of Erkenbert “Wihtred, who succeeded to the kingdom of Kent, and held it thirty-three winters, was the son of Egbert, Egbert of Erkenbert, Erkenbert of Eadbald, Eadbald of Ethelbert.”

child: Ethelbert son of Wihtred “Ethelbert, son of King Wihtred, succeeded to the kingdom.”

Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.