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Mul of Kent

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Mul seems to have only ruled a year before the local population rose up in revolt against him in 687, chasing him and his followers into a building near the local church and setting it on fire, burning them to death. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that "Mul was burned in Kent, and 12 other men
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Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens, Little, Brown Book Group, 2012, page 221
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Davis, K. Rutherford. 1982. Britons and Saxons: The Chiltern Region 400-700. London: Phillimore.
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vocabulary; presumably it was a nickname which became habitual. Mul's father was
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The name Mul is very unusual and it has been postulated that it derives from the
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relates that in 686, "Caedwalla and Mul, his brother, ravaged Kent and
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with him; and that year Caedwalla again ravaged Kent." The same
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of four Kentish kings. Mul's is the one on the farthest right.
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notes that in 694 the people of Kent came to terms with
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meaning mule, a word which is known to have entered the
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Index

King of Kent
Eadric of Kent
Swæfheard
Cenberht

St Augustine's Abbey
Canterbury
Old English
mule
Anglo-Saxon
Kingdom of Kent
England
Latin
Old English
Coenberht
House of Wessex
Cynric
Caedwalla of Wessex
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Wight
charter
Swæfheard
Ine of Wessex
House of Wessex family tree
List of monarchs of Kent
Chronology of Kentish Kings
Swæfheard (Suabhardus)
Mul 1
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Eadric

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