Egbert (king of Kent)
Also known as: Egbert · Family: Kent · Role: king · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXIX
Around 664, Oswy and Egbert consulted on the state of the English Church and selected Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, to be sent to Rome for ordination as bishop and archbishop. In 668, Egbert inherited the kingdom of Kent from his father Earconbert and, with Oswy, again sent Wighard to Rome; when the bishop was found in the kingdom of the Franks, Egbert sent his reeve Raedfrid to bring him.
Egbert died in July 673, after which his brother Hlothere succeeded to the throne. Later, his son Edric raised the South Saxons against Hlothere, while another son, Wictred, was described as the lawful king settled on the throne.
Relationship record
Life events
- c. 664 · Oswy and Egbert selected Wighard and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop and archbishop.(Book III · Chap. XXIX · 📍 Rome)
- 668 · Egbert inherited the kingdom of Kent from his father Earconbert.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Kent)
- With: Earconbert
- “leaving his kingdom to his son Egbert, who held it for nine years.”
- 668 · Egbert and Oswy sent Wighard to Rome to receive the archbishopric.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Rome)
- 673 · Egbert, king of Kent, died, and his brother Hlothere succeeded him on the throne.(Book IV · Chap. V)
- With: Hlothere
- “In which year Egbert, king of Kent, died in the month of July; his brother Hlothere succeeded him on the throne”
- 729 · Egbert departed this life on Easter day.(Book V · Chap. XXIII)
- “In that year the holy man of God, Egbert, departed to the Lord, as has been said above, on Easter day”
Book III · Chap. XXIX
- with Oswy (They jointly consulted about the English Church.) “the most noble kings of the English, Oswy, of the province of the Northumbrians, and Egbert of Kent, consulted together to determine what ought to be done about the state of the English Church”
- liege: Wighard (Egbert jointly selected and sent Wighard to be ordained bishop.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
- with Wighard (Egbert jointly sent Wighard to Rome.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
Book IV · Chap. I
- parent: Earconbert “leaving his kingdom to his son Egbert, who held it for nine years.”
- with Wighard (interaction) “the priest Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race, was sent to Rome by King Egbert and Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, as was briefly mentioned in the foregoing book, with a request that he might be ordained Archbishop of the Church of England;”
- with Raedfrid (interaction) “King Egbert, being informed by sure messengers that the bishop they had asked of the Roman prelate was in the kingdom of the Franks, sent thither his reeve, Raedfrid, to conduct him.”
Book IV · Chap. V
- siblings with Hlothere “In which year Egbert, king of Kent, died in the month of July; his brother Hlothere succeeded him on the throne, which he held eleven years and seven months.”
Book IV · Chap. XXVI
- siblings with Hlothere (Egbert is Hlothere's brother.) “Hlothere, king of Kent, died on the 6th of February, when he had reigned twelve years after his brother Egbert, who had reigned nine years”
- child: Edric (Edric is Egbert's son.) “he was wounded in battle with the South Saxons, whom Edric, the son of Egbert, had raised against him”
- child: Wictred (Wictred is Egbert's son.) “till the lawful king, Wictred, the son of Egbert, being settled in the throne”
Book V · Chap. XXIII
- child: Wictred “Wictred, the son of Egbert, king of Kent, died on the 23rd of April”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.