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Ethelbert

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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 Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to Christianise England, in the time of the Romans, he was received and protected by Ethelbert, King of Kent, whose wife, daughter of Charibert, King of Paris, was a Christian, and did much for Augustine.
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