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Ethelbert (c. 552–616)

King of Kent 560–616. He was defeated by the West Saxons in 568 but later became ruler of England south of the River Humber. Ethelbert received the Christian missionary Augustine in 597 and later converted to become the first Christian ruler of Anglo-Saxon England. He issued the first written code of laws known in England.

He married a French princess, Bertha.

Ethelbert (died 866)

British king of Wessex. He was the third son of Ethelwulf and succeeded his father in Kent in 858; on the death of Ethelbald he took control of the whole realm in 860.



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When the Angles, Saxons and Jutes arrived in the fifth century they introduced the gold thrysmas, copied from Roman bronze coins; then their most prominent coin, the small silver sceatta, first mentioned in the laws of Aethelberht, king of Kent, circa AD600.
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116) oorum naman caerse nemneo c1000 Naes hit lengra fyrst (Beowulf: 134) c858 IIII oxnum gers (Charter of Aethelberht in OE Texts: 438) c825 HE 3efaeh swe swe 3i3ent to (Vesp.
Metathetic and non-metathetic form selection in Middle English by Welna, Jerzy / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
List at least 5 sentences (or dooms) decreed by King Aethelberht of Kent.
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