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King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent
Gravesite at
St Augustine's Abbey
in
Canterbury
of four Kentish kings. Hlothhere's is the second from the left.
Hlothhere
(
Old English
:
Hloþhere
; died 6 February 685) was a
King
of
Kent
who ruled from 673 to 685.
[1]
King of Kent between 673 and 685
Hlothhere succeeded his brother
Ecgberht I
in 673. His parents were
Eorcenberht of Kent
and
Seaxburh of Ely
, the daughter of
Anna of East Anglia
.
[2]
In 676 the Mercian king
Æthelred
invaded Kent and caused great destruction;
[3]
according to
Bede
, even churches and monasteries were not spared, and
Rochester
was laid waste. The damage was so great that
Putta
,
Bishop of Rochester
, resigned.
[4]
So too did his successor,
Cwichhelm
,
[5]
due to the poverty of the see.
Hlothhere's rule survived this onslaught, however. He appears for a time to have reigned jointly with his nephew
Eadric
, son of
Ecgberht I
, since a code of laws still extant was issued under both their names.
[6]
A law code, the
Law of Hlothhere and Eadric
, is jointly attributed to him and his successor Eadric. In 685, Eadric went into exile and led the
South Saxons
against Hlothhere, who was defeated and died of his wounds
[
citation needed
]
.
The information is derived from Bede, but Hlothhere is the earliest Kentish king for whom genuine charters survive. One charter known from a 15th-century copy, is precisely dated to 1 April 675 in the first year of Hlothhere's reign, which conflicts with accession date attributed to him by Bede. The Charter of King Hlothhere of Kent, 679 survives in its original form. Two further charters attributed to Hlothere (S1648, S1648a), appear to have been altered copies of charters of Swæfheard and Swæfberht. (Kelly 1995).
See also
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References
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]
- ^
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911).
"Hlothhere"
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^
Earle, John.
Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel
, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1865, p. 27.
- ^
Bede,
Ecclesiastical History
, IV, 12, p. 223.
- ^
Smith, R. A. L., "The Early Community of St. Andrew at Rochester, 604-c. 1080".
The English Historical Review
. (September 1945), 60 (238): 289?299.
doi
:
10.1093/ehr/LX.CCXXXVIII.289
JSTOR 556594
- ^
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I.,
Handbook of British Chronology
(Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1996), p. 221
ISBN
0-521-56350-X
- ^
Oliver, Lisi.
The Beginnings of English Law
, Toronto. Toronto University Press, 2002, pp. 126?27, 134
ISBN
0-8020-3535-3
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Existence uncertain (See
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Also monarch of Mercia
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Also monarch of East Anglia and Mercia
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Also monarch of Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Mercia
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Also monarch of Wessex
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