Born in Kent (an Anglo-Saxon kingdom as the south-east corner of England) in around 560, Æthelberht, who was the great-grandson of Hengist (the first Saxon conqueror of Britain) became King of Kent some time between 580 and 590, and soon exercised the supremacy of a “bretwalda” over all the Saxon kings south of the Humber. [...]
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St Æthelberht of Kent
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