King of Kent Ealhmund of Kent

Male 758 - 802  (44 years)


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  • Name Ealhmund of Kent 
    Title King of Kent 
    Born 758  Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 10576 
    Died 802 
    Person ID I10576  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Eafa of England,   b. 732, Wessex Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F181  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Egbert of Wessex,   b. 775, Wessex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 839, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F184  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784.
      The only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated in that year, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver. [1] By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to have been ruling directly, as he issued a charter [2] without any mention of a local king.
      There is a general consensus that he is identical[3] to the Ealhmund found in two pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great. 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,[4] 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 Egbert.[5] Based on this reconstruction, in which a Wessex scion became king of Kent, his own Kentish name and that of his son, Egbert, it has been suggested that his mother derived from the royal house of Kent,[6] a connection dismissed by a recent critical review.[3] It has likewise been suggested that Ealhmund might actually have been a Kentish royal scion, and that his pedigree was forged to give son Egbert the descent from Cerdic requisite to reigning in Wessex.