This is a list of the kings of the
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
Kingdom of Kent
The Kingdom of the Kentish (; ), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an Early Middle Ages, early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century AD until it was fully absorbed i ...
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The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from
Bede
Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Bede of Jarrow, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the most known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most f ...
. Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with similar or identical names. It is commonplace for the later kings to be referred to as subkings, but the actual rank used is always ''rex'', never ''regulus'' (except for a late legend concerning Eormenred). The usual style was simply King of Kent (''rex Cantiae'') or King of the Kentish Men (''rex Cantuariorum''). Territorial division within Kent is not alluded to, except by Eadberht I (''rex Cantuariorum terram dimidii'') and Sigered (''rex dimidie partis prouincie Cantuariorum'').
List of kings of Kent
See also
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List of English monarchs
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the heptarchy, seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the ...
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Kentish Royal Legend
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Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript tradition based in the 8th to 10th centuries.
The genealogies trace the succession of th ...
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On the Resting-Places of the Saints
''On the Resting-Places of the Saints'' is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as ''Þá hálgan'' and the ''Secgan'', which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving m ...
(list of Anglo-Saxon saints - ''Secgan'')
Sources
*Campbell, A. 1973. Charters of Rochester. ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'' 1.
*Fryde, E. B., Greenway, D. E., Porter, S., & Roy, I. 1986. Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd ed. ''Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks'' 2.
*Garmonsway, G. N. 1954. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 2nd edition.
*Kelly, S. E. 1995. Charters of St. Augustine's Abbey Canterbury and Minster-in-Thanet. ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'' 4.
*King, J. E. 1930. Baedae Opera Historica. ''Loeb Classical Library'' 246 & 248.
*Kirby, D. P. 1991. ''The Earliest English Kings''.
*Sawyer, P. H. 1968. Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography. ''Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks'' 8.
*Searle, W. G. 1899. ''Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles.''
*Sweet, H. 1896. ''The Student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon''.
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Yorke, B. 1990. ''Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England''.
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Monarchs of Kent
Monarchs
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Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...
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