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Æthelberht (Old English: [ˈæðelberˠxt]; also spelled Ethelbert or Aethelberht) was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh .
Aethelberht was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, who succeeded to the subkingdom of Kent during the lifetime of his father Aethelwulf and retained it until the death of his elder brother Aethelbald, when he became sole king of Wessex and Kent, the younger brothers Aethelred and Alfred.
Aethelberht I (died Feb. 24, 616 or 618) was the king of Kent (560–616) who issued the first extant code of Anglo-Saxon laws. Reflecting some continental influence, the code established the legal position of the clergy and instituted many secular regulations.
Aethelberht (or Ethelbert) was the third son of King Aethelwulf of Wessex by his first wife Osburh. We know very little about his early life, but we do know that when his father went on a pilgrimage to Rome in AD 855 Aethelberht was appointed subking of Kent, while his elder brother Aethelbald reigned in Wessex.
This is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources, the earlier ones are in many cases obscure.
Despite continuing Vikings raids, King Æthelberht ruled ‘in good harmony and in good peace’ according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle. He reunited the kingdom, merging Sussex, Essex, Kent and Wessex.
May 3, 2022 · As he had no children, Aethelberht became King of Wessex. In 865 the legendary Viking Ragnar Lothbrok landed in Northumbria and was killed by King Aelle of Northumbria. In revenge for the death of Ragnar, his sons formed the Great Heathen Army that landed in East Anglia later the same year.
