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Ealhmund of Kent

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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
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He is not known to have struck any coins, and the only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund granted land to the
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the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of King
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seems to have been ruling directly, as he issued a charter without any mention of a local king.
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General consensus among historians is this is the same Ealhmund found in two pedigrees in the
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Dent & Sons, Ltd. 7: 351:Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England 56:identifies him as the son of Eafa. 25: 118:, originally compiled after the 103:, and therefore a member of the 83:, compiled during the reign of 356:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Year 784 243:Garmonsway, pp. xxxix-xxxx, 52 172:Grierson and Blackburn, p. 269 1: 81:Winchester (Parker) Chronicle 671:8th-century English monarchs 307:UK public library membership 116:Canterbury Bilingual Epitome 99:, and descendant of founder 287:. Oxford University Press. 234:Garmonsway, pp. xxxii, 2, 4 109:House of Wessex family tree 687: 120:Norman conquest of England 29: 625:Existence uncertain (See 621: 435: 386: 377: 369: 364: 315:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 279:Edwards, Heather (2004). 139:List of monarchs of Kent 27:Medieval king in England 270:The Life of King Alfred 158:The Life of King Alfred 54:The Life of King Alfred 641:Also monarch of Wessex 632:Also monarch of Mercia 313:Garmonsway, G.N. ed., 160:, John Asser, page 1, 18:Ealhmund, King of Kent 358:Mention of his reign. 293:10.1093/ref:odnb/8581 252:Edwards, "Ecgberht" 207:. Anglo-Saxons.net 185:. 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Index

Ealhmund, King of Kent
Ealhmund
Kent
Egbert
Asser
Abbot
Reculver
Offa of Mercia
Winchester (Parker) Chronicle
Alfred the Great
Æthelwulf
Egbert of Wessex
Ine of Wessex
Cerdic
House of Wessex
House of Wessex family tree
Canterbury Bilingual Epitome
Norman conquest of England
Wessex
List of monarchs of Kent
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"S 38"
"S 123"
Asser, John
https://archive.org/details/asserslifeofking00asseiala/page/1/mode/1up
"Ecgberht [Egbert] (d. 839), king of the West Saxons"
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/8581
UK public library membership
ISBN

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