Английская Википедия:Ealhmund of Kent
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other people Шаблон:Use dmy dates Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784. He is reputed to be the father of King Egbert who was King of Wessex and, later, King of Kent. Asser's The Life of King Alfred identifies him as the son of Eafa.[1]
Biography
He is not known to have struck any coins,[2] and the only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver. In this charter he is identified as Ealmundus rex Canciæ.[3] By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to have been ruling directly, as he issued a charter[4] without any mention of a local king.
General consensus among historians is this is the same Ealhmund found in two pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great.[5] The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry (covering years 855–859) describing the death of Æthelwulf, both make King Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of King Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic,[6] and therefore a member of the House of Wessex (see House of Wessex family tree). A further entry has been added in a later hand to the 784 annal, reporting Ealhmund's reign in Kent.
Finally, in the Canterbury Bilingual Epitome, originally compiled after the Norman conquest of England, a later scribe has likewise added to the 784 annal not only Ealhmund's reign in Kent, but his explicit identification with the father of Egbert.[7]
Historian Heather Edwards has suggested that Ealhmund was probably a Kentish royal scion, whose pedigree was forged to give his son Egbert the descent from Cerdic requisite to reigning in Wessex.[8]
See also
Notes
References
- Asser, John, The Life of King Alfred, https://archive.org/details/asserslifeofking00asseiala/page/1/mode/1up
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- Garmonsway, G.N. ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
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External links
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- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Year 784 Mention of his reign.
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- ↑ The Life of King Alfred, John Asser, page 1, https://archive.org/details/asserslifeofking00asseiala/page/1/mode/1up
- ↑ Grierson and Blackburn, p. 269
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Bierbrier, p. 382
- ↑ Garmonsway, pp. xxxii, 2, 4
- ↑ Garmonsway, pp. xxxix-xxxx, 52
- ↑ Edwards, "Ecgberht"
