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Birth:          ABT  620 
Death:          14 Jul  664 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eorcenberht_of_Kent
Eorcenberht of Kent (also Ærconberht, Earconberht, or Earconbert) (died 14 July 664) 
was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent from 640 until his death, succeeding his 
father Eadbald.[1]

The Kentish Royal Legend (also known as the Mildrith legend[2]) suggests that he was 
the younger son of Eadbald and Emma of Austrasia, and that his older brother 
Eormenred was deliberately passed over, although another possibility is that they ruled 
jointly.

According to Bede (HE III.8), Eorcenberht was the first king in Britain to command that 
pagan "idols" (cult images) be destroyed and that Lent be observed. It has been 
suggested that these orders may have been officially committed to writing, in the 
tradition of Kentish law-codes initiated by Æthelberht, but no such text survives.[3]

After the death of Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury, Eorcenberht appointed the first 
Saxon archbishop, Deusdedit, in 655.

Eorcenberht married Seaxburh of Ely,[4] daughter of king Anna of East Anglia. They 
had two sons, Ecgberht and Hlothhere, who each consecutively became king of Kent, 
and two daughters who both were eventually canonized: Saint Eorcengota became a 
nun at Faremoutiers Abbey on the continent, and Saint Ermenilda became abbess at 
Ely.

Eorcenberht was probably buried alongside his parents in the Church of St Mary, 
which his father had built in the precincts of the monastery of St Peter and St Paul in 
Canterbury, a church later incorporated within the Norman edifice of St Augustine's.[5] 
At that time, his relics were translated for reburial in the south transept ca. A.D. 1087.
[6]

Parents
____ Eadbald (ABT  590 -  640)
OF AUSTRASIA Emma (ABT  600 -  642)

Siblings
____ Earconbert (ABT  620 - 14 Jul  664)

Marriage To OF EAST ANGLIA Sexburga (ABT  630 - ABT  699)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Anna (Onna) ( -  654)
____ Saewara ()

Children by OF EAST ANGLIA Sexburga ABT  630 - ABT  699
____ Egbert I (ABT  650 - 4 Jul  673)

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