Born after in Kent
Ancestors 
Son of Eormenric (Kent) of Kent
and Unknown (Unknown) Kent
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Berta (Merovingian) of Kent
— married
0580 (to before 0616) [location unknown]
Husband of
Unknown (UNKNOWN) Kent
— married
after 0601 (to 24 Feb 0616) [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Aethelberg Tate (Kent) Northumbria and Eadbald (Kent) of Kent
Died
before age 66
in Kent, England
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Biography
Æthelberht (c. 560 – 24 February 616) was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle he is referred to as a bretwalda, or "Britain-ruler". He was the first English king to convert to Christianity. King Æthelberht of Kent granted permission to the first Bishop of Rochester, Justus to establish a church dedicated to Andrew the Apostle (like the monastery at Rome where Augustine and Justus had set out for England) on the site of the present cathedral, which was made the seat of a bishopric. The cathedral was to be served by a college of secular priests and was endowed with land near the city called Priestfields. King Æthelberht of Kent is commemorated by a statue in Rochester Cathedral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral
Aethelberht I, King of Kent (after 550 - 24 Feb 616)[1]
bur. Church of St Peter and St Paul, Canterbury[2]
Parents
Father: Eormenric, King of Kent[3]
Mother: UNKNOWN[4]
Marriage
m.1 Berta of the Franks.[5] Issue: 2
- Aethelberg (Tate) (590 - after 633)
- Eadbald (d. 20 Jan 640)
m.2 (after 601) UNKNOWN (d. after 618). No issue.[6]
- This woman's 2nd husband was her step-son, Eadbald.
Sources
- Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Sumptibus Societatis, London, 1838) Book II, Chapter V, Page 109. See pages 67, 68, 73, etc. of the English translation. He died Feb 24, 616 "having most gloriously governed his temporal kingdom fifty-six years"
- MEDIEVAL LANDS: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy & Charles Cawley 2000-2018.
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