Earconbert
Family: Kent · Role: king · First appears: Book III · Chap. VIII
Life events
- 640 · Eadbald died and left the kingdom of Kent to his son Earconbert.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 Kent)
- With: Eadbald
- “Eadbald, king of Kent, departed this life, and left his kingdom to his son Earconbert”
- 640 · Earconbert ordered the idols throughout his kingdom destroyed and imposed observance of the forty-day fast.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 Kent)
- “He was the first of the English kings that of his supreme authority commanded the idols throughout his whole kingdom to be forsaken and destroyed, and the fast of forty days to be observed”
- 668 · Earconbert died, ending his reign in Kent.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Kent)
- “Earconbert, also, king of Kent, departed this life the same month and day;”
- 668 · Egbert inherited the kingdom of Kent from his father Earconbert.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Kent)
- With: Egbert (king of Kent)
- “leaving his kingdom to his son Egbert, who held it for nine years.”
Book III · Chap. VIII
- parent: Eadbald “Eadbald, king of Kent, departed this life, and left his kingdom to his son Earconbert”
- child: Earcongota “His daughter Earcongota, as became the offspring of such a parent, was a most virtuous virgin”
- married with Sexburg “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
Book IV · Chap. I
- child: Egbert (king of Kent) “leaving his kingdom to his son Egbert, who held it for nine years.”
Book IV · Chap. XIX
- married with Sexburg “who had been wife to Earconbert, king of Kent”
Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1
- cousins with Eanfled “She, being pleased with the youth’s good purpose, sent him into Kent, to King Earconbert, who was her uncle’s son, requesting that he would send him to Rome in an honourable manner.”
- with Eanfled (She requested that Earconbert send Wilfrid to Rome.) “She, being pleased with the youth’s good purpose, sent him into Kent, to King Earconbert, who was her uncle’s son, requesting that he would send him to Rome in an honourable manner.”
- with Benedict (The king directed Wilfrid to accompany Benedict to Rome.) “The king gave him Wilfrid for a companion, and bade Wilfrid conduct him to Rome.”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.