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Æthelberht of Kent

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 24, 2016 by  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:34, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Æthelberht in stained glass at All Souls College Chapel, Oxford

Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 560 until his death on 24 February 616. Bede listed him in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and he was called a bretwalda or "Britain-ruler" in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. As the first English king to convert to Christianity, he provided Augustine's mission with land for what came to be known as Canterbury Cathedral and the eventual St Augustine's Abbey. The Law of Æthelberht was the earliest written code in any Germanic language and coins began circulating in Kent during his reign for the first time following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. Æthelberht was canonised for his role in establishing Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, as were his wife Bertha and daughter Æthelburh. His feast day in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches is on 25 February. (Full article...)