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King of Kent is in Kent.
In 512 Octa King of Kent (age 12) succeeded King of Kent.
In 543 Octa King of Kent (age 43) died. His son Eormenric King of Kent succeeded King of Kent.
In 589 King Æthelberht of Kent (age 39) succeeded King of Kent. Bertha Merovingian Queen Consort Kent (age 24) by marriage Queen Consort Kent.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 616. This year died Ethelbert (age 66), king of Kent, the first of English kings that received baptism: he was the son of Ermenric. He reigned fifty-six winters, and was succeeded by his son Eadbald. And in this same year had elapsed from the beginning of the world five thousand six hundred and eighteen winters. This Eadbald renounced his baptism, and lived in a heathen manner; so that he took to wife the relict of his father. Then Laurentius, who was archbishop in Kent, meant to depart southward over sea, and abandon everything. But there came to him in the night the apostle Peter, and severely chastised him19, because he would so desert the flock of God. And he charged him to go to the king, and teach him the right belief. And he did so; and the king returned to the right belief. In this king's days the same Laurentius, who was archbishop in Kent after Augustine, departed this life on the second of February, and was buried near Augustine. The holy Augustine in his lifetime invested him bishop, to the end that the church of Christ, which yet was new in England, should at no time after his decease be without an archbishop. After him Mellitus, who was first Bishop of London, succeeded to the archbishopric. The people of London, where Mellitus was before, were then heathens: and within five winters of this time, during the reign of Eadbald, Mellitus died. To him succeeded Justus, who was Bishop of Rochester, whereto he consecrated Romanus bishop.
Note 19. Literally, "swinged, or scourged him." Both Bede and Alfred begin by recording the matter as a vision, or a dream; whence the transition is easy to a matter of fact, as here stated by the Norman interpolators of the "Saxon Annals".
On 24 Feb 616 King Æthelberht of Kent (age 66) died. His son King Eadbald of Kent succeeded King of Kent. Emma Austrasia Queen Consort Kent by marriage Queen Consort Kent.
On 20 Jan 640 King Eadbald of Kent died. His son King Eorcenberht of Kent succeeded King of Kent. Seaxburh Wuffingas Queen Consort Kent by marriage Queen Consort Kent.
On 14 Jul 664 King Eorcenberht of Kent died. His son King Ecgberht I of Kent succeeded I King of Kent.
On 04 Jul 673 King Ecgberht I of Kent died. His son King Eadric of Kent succeeded King of Kent.
In 686 Mul King of Kent was appointed King of Kent.
In 687 Mul King of Kent was killed. King Wihtred of Kent (age 17) succeeded King of Kent.
On 23 Apr 725 King Wihtred of Kent (age 55) died. His son King Eadbert I of Kent succeeded King of Kent. He may have eigned with his brothers King Æthelbert II of Kent and King Alric of Kent.
In 748 King Eadbert I of Kent died. His brother King Æthelbert II of Kent (age 23) succeeded King of Kent.
Before 784 Ealmund King of Kent was appointed King of Kent. The only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784 in which Ealmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver.
In 821 King Coenwulf of Mercia died at Basingwerk, Flintshire. He was buried at Winchcombe Abbey [Map]. His brother Coelwulf King Mercia King East Anglia King of Kent succeeded King Mercia, King East Anglia, King of Kent.
In 839 King Æthelstan of Kent was appointed King of Kent by his father King Æthelwulf of Wessex.