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Birth:          ABT  758 Wessex
Death:           788 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealhmund_of_Kent
Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784. He is reputed to be the father of King Egbert who 
was King of Wessex and, later, King of Kent.

Biography[edit]

He is not known to have struck any coins,[1] and the only contemporary evidence of 
him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund granted land to the 
Abbot of Reculver.[2] By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to have been ruling 
directly, as he issued a charter [3] without any mention of a local king.

General consensus among historians is this is the same Ealhmund found in two 
pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled during the reign of Alfred the 
Great.[4] The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry 
(covering years 855–859) describing the death of Ęthelwulf, both make King Egbert of 
Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and 
great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of King Ine of Wessex, and descendant of 
founder Cerdic,[5] and therefore a member of the House of Wessex (see House of 
Wessex family tree). A further entry has been added in a later hand to the 784 annal, 
reporting Ealhmund's reign in Kent.

Finally, in the Canterbury Bilingual Epitome, originally compiled after the Norman 
conquest of England, a later scribe has likewise added to the 784 annal not only 
Ealhmund's reign in Kent, but his explicit identification with the father of Egbert.[6] 
Based on this reconstruction, in which a Wessex scion became King of Kent, his own 
Kentish name and that of his son, Egbert, it has been suggested that his mother 
derived from the royal house of Kent,[7] a connection dismissed by a recent critical 
review.[4] Historian Heather Edwards has suggested that Ealhmund was probably a 
Kentish royal scion, whose pedigree was forged to give his son Egbert the descent 
from Cerdic requisite to reigning in Wessex.[8]

Parents
OF WESSEX Eafa (ABT  732 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Eahlmund (Edmund) (ABT  758 -  788)

Marriage To OF KENT ----- (ABT  758 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Ethelbert II (ABT  715 -  762)
----- ----- ()

Children by OF KENT ----- ABT  758 - 
____ Egbert "the Great" ( 775 - 4 Feb  839)

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