Princess Eaba of Kent

• Preferred Name: Princess Eaba of Kent ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Alternate Name: Eaba of Wessex
  
• Gender: F
  
• Christening: 762
  
• FSID: LCWJ-3TT
  
• Birth: 736 in Kingdom of Kent at LATI: N1.2261 LONG: E0.7505
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Princess of Kent
  
• Death: 800 in Kingdom of Wessex at LATI: N1.2 LONG: E2
  
• Burial: 800 in Kingdom of Wessex at LATI: N1.2 LONG: E2 with note: Place
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  NAME IS NOT KNOWN IS NOT ALBURGA The name of the wife of King Ealhmund of Kent, and the mother of King Egbert of Wessex and Kent, IS NOT KNOWN. PLEASE DO NOT KEEP MERGING WITH ALBURGA There is nothing to indicate Alburga was Ealhmund's wife ------------ Direct quote from Wikipedia: "Ealhmund's wife is not known, however, he is identified as the father of: Ecgberht, King of Wessex Æthelburh of Wilton, wife of Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealhmund_of_Kent#Issue
  LESS
  
  There was PERHAPS a woman named "Alburga AETHELBRYHTING Kent" however she is NOT identified as a daughter of Æthelbert II of Kent and Bertha. She also HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED as the wife of Ealhmund, King of Kent. The name of Ealhmund's wife IS NOT KNOWN.
  
  It appears that someone had confused many different people here.
  
  King Æthelbert I of Kent lived 550 – 24 February 616, he did have a wife named Bertha of Kent and they had a daughter named Æthelberg (not Alburga) who was the wife of Eadwine King of Northumbria. Æthelberg died at least 100 years before Ealhmund, King of Kent, was even born.
  
  Æthelbert II of Kent was the great great grandson of King Æthelbert I of Kent, he was NOT married to Bertha of Kent. Bertha was the wife of his Great great grandfather and died LOOOOOONG before he was born.
  
  Æthelbert II of Kent lived about 705–762 and was the son of King Wihtred of Kent. The name of his wife is not known, and he is known only to have had a son: Eadberht II who was King of Kent, jointly with Sigered.
  
  Where did your information for "Alburga AETHELBRYHTING Kent" come from? Please attach supporting sources. Find A Grave is not a reliable source of information as anyone can write anything there that they want, what Find A Grave says is not necessarily the truth.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  Cynethryth (?)1
  F, #175370 Last Edited=27 Nov 2005
  Cynethryth (?) married Offa, King of Mercia , son of Thingfrith (?) .
  Children of Cynethryth (?) and Offa, King of Mercia
  Ecgfrið, King of Mercia + d. bt 14 Dec 796 - 17 Dec 7961
  Ælfflæd (?) 1
  Eadburh (?) 1
  Æthelburh (?) 1
  Citations
  [S58 ] E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition (London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society, 1986), page 16. Hereinafter cited as Handbook of British Chronology.
  
  === !Name,Md,pla,SS-IGI,addendum 2002 ===
  !Name,Md,pla,SS-IGI,addendum 2002
  
  === Princess of Kent ===
  Alternative name
  
  === !BIRTH RECORD; INFO FROM LDS CHURCH ANC ===
  !BIRTH RECORD; INFO FROM LDS CHURCH ANCESTRAL FILE MARRIAGE RECORD; " " " DEATH RECORD; 37TH GREAT GRANDMOTHER
  
  === m CYNETHRYTH, daughter of ---. "Cynethry ===
  m CYNETHRYTH, daughter of ---. "Cynethrythe regina" subscribed a charter of "Offa rex Anglorum" dated 774[636]. "Kineswithe regina" subscribed a charter of "Offa filius Thingfrith rex Merciorum" dated 777[637]. King Offa & his wife had four children:
  
  Lady Effa, Mrs Effa, Wife of Effa
  Her name is not known, her parentage is not known, sometimes identified as a princess of Kent.
  Mother of King Ealhmund of Kent

1. King Ealhmund of Kent , b. 9 JUL 758 in Kingdom of Wessex     d. 23 MAR 786 in York, Yorkshire, Kingdom of Wessex

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: * -
   Author: Family History Library archive record (family group sheet)
   Note: Source: Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 339; Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 5; Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt. 1, p. 95 Submitter: Sanford A. Johnson
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244547632
   
2. Title: Ealhmund of Kent From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealhmund_of_Kent#Issue;
   Note: 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 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 Æthelwulf, 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] Issue Ealhmund's wife is not known, however, he is identified as the father of: Ecgberht, King of Wessex Æthelburh of Wilton, wife of Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire
   Page: Ealhmund's wife is not known, however, he is identified as the father of: Ecgberht, King of Wessex Æthelburh of Wilton, wife of Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire
   
3. Title: EALHMUND, son of [EAFA & his wife ---] in "H. KINGS of WESSEX 802-944, KINGS of ENGLAND 944-1066" - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20&%20Danish%20Kings.htm#EalhmundWessexB;
   Note: 1. EALHMUND, son of [EAFA & his wife ---] (-after 784, maybe after 801). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "rex Ealhmundus" was "in Cantia rex" in 784, adding that "this king Ealhmund was the father of Egbert, the father of Æthelwulf"[1457]. He succeeded as EALHMUND King of Kent, in 784 or before. The generally accepted parentage of Ealhmund, according to which he was descended from Ingeld, brother of Ine King of Wessex, is open to debate. This supposed parentage is set out in a later passage, dated 855, in another manuscript of the Chronicle, which lists the ancestors of Æthelwulf King of Wessex, states that Ealhmund was "son of Eafa, son of Eoppa, son of Ingeld…brother of Ine king of Wessex", adds their alleged direct line of ancestors back to Cerdic, first King of Wessex, Cerdic’s mythical ancestry back to Woden, and even Woden’s alleged descent from Noah and "Adam the first man"[1458]. This is clearly one of the dubious lines of descent of the kings of Wessex which are discussed in the introduction to the Chapter. The problem is to decide the point at which fact gives way to fabrication. It is possible that this point occurs very early in the line of ancestry, and that there is doubt whether Ealhmund was even the son of "Eafa" as claimed in this passage. "Eafa" and his supposed father "Eoppa" are not named in any other sources which have so far been identified, although "Ingeld…brother of Ine" is noted in a single passage of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dated 718 which records his death. The absence of any mention of Ealhmund’s parentage in the earlier passage in the Chronicle dated 784 certainly suggests doubt about the line of ancestry which is reported in 855. By the latter date, few people alive could have challenged Ealhmund’s reported parentage from personal acquaintance with his parents. This suggestion of course assumes that the Chronicle was a living document which was composed over time, with successive passages being added by different authors as time passed. This hypothesis is plausible, but is impossible to prove or disprove. If it is correct, it is possible that Ealhmund was not related to the family of the earlier kings of Wessex at all. Looking elsewhere for his possible ancestry, it is interesting to note that Ealhmund's predecessor as king of Kent was named Ecgberht, the name which Ealhmund gave to his own son, and which was a name not previously used in the royal families of Wessex, at least so far as can be ascertained from the surviving primary sources. If this speculation is correct, it would of course mean that the usually represented ancestry of Ecgberht King of Wessex would require reconsideration. "Ealmundus rex Canciæ" granted land at Sheldwich, Kent to Hwitrede abbot of Reculver by charter dated 784[1459]. Mercian involvement in Kentish affairs appears to have increased again in 785-789[1460]. Presumably King Ealhmund was deposed as King of Kent by Offa King of Mercia as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in a much later passage recalls that "the Kentishmen … formerly … had been wrongly forced away from their allegiance to his [Ecgberht King of Wessex's] kinsmen"[1461]. This event may have taken place in 789, the date when King Ealhmund's son Ecgberht is later described in the Chronicle as having been expelled from England by Beorhtric King of Wessex and Offa King of Mercia[1462]. "Ealhmund princeps" subscribed a charter of "Beorhtric rex" dated 801[1463], but this may be a different individual who has not been identified. If the identity of Ealhmund’s wife is as suggested below, the individual named in the 801 charter must certainly have been a different person from Ealhmund King of Kent. m ---. The name of Ealhmund's wife is not known. It is possible that she was ---, daughter of ---, who married secondly Alhmund [of Northumbria]. According to a manuscript which recounts the founding of Wilton Monastery, “Elburga, filia Alqmundi martyris, filii Alrudi regis Northumbrorum” was “soror Egberti Regis, ex parte regis”, clarifying that he was Ecgberht King of Wessex (“quia Egbertus fuit filius Alqmundi, filii Offæ Regis, de prosapia Inæ”)[1464]. As Alhmund of Northumbria’s death is dated to 800, Ealhmund of Wessex would have been her first husband. The reliability of this manuscript is not known. The document dates the founding of Wilton abbey by King Echberht to 773, which is clearly anachronistic, and shows that it cannot be relied upon entirely. It is probably safer to treat the narrative with caution until some other corroboration is found in another source. Ealhmund & his wife had one child: a) ECGBERHT ([769/80]-839). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "Egbert succeeded to the kingdom of Wessex" after the death of Beorhtric in 802, in a later passage describing him as Ecgberht as son of Ealhmund, and in another passage which setting out his complete ancestry from his son Æthelwulf King of Wessex[1465]. On Beorhtric's death, he established himself in 802 as ECGBERHT King of Wessex, rebelling against Mercian overlordship. - see below.
   Page: Leave the name of the wife of Eafa and mother of Ealhmund blank, indicating her name is unknown.
   
4. Title: Alburga of Kent, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W3JT-RFZM : 15 June 2022), Alburga of Kent, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 197524363, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W3JT-RFZM;
   
5. Title: Copy of Legacy NFS Source: Mrs. Ealhmund of Kent -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   
6. Title: Ealhmund, King of Kent -The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England
   Publication: Name: https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/ealhm000.htm;
   Note: Ealhmund King of Kent, fl. 784. Ealhmund appears in a charter of 784, donating land in Sheldwick, co. Kent to abbot Hwitred and the monastery of Reculver ["Anno dominicæ incarnationis .DCC.LXXXIIII. Ego Ealmundus rex Canciæ ..." Cart. Sax. 1: 337 (#243)]. Two manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mention him, but in late hands ["To þysan timan rixode Ealhmund cing innon Cent." ASC(A) s.a. 784 (late hand); "Hic tunc temporis fuit in Cantia rex Ealhmundus. Þes Ealhmund cing was Egberhts fæder. Egberht was Aðulfes fæder." ASC(F) s.a. 784 (late hand)]. As noted by Plummer, it is possible that the notes in the Chronicle are taken from the charter [ASC 2: 71]. Ealhmund is given the title of "subregulus" by John of Worcester ["Ecgbertus, filius Alhmundi subreguli ..." John Worc., 1: 273]. Date of birth: Unknown. Place of birth: Unknown. Date of death: After 784. Place of death: Unknown. It seems unlikely that he was the princeps Ealhmund who attested a charter of Beorhtric of Wessex in 801 [Cart. Sax. 1: 391 (#282)]. Possible father: Eaba/Eafa. Mother: Unknown. Ealhmund's parentage is discussed below in the Commentary section. Spouse: Unknown. The sources are silent on Ealhmund's wife, but see the Commentary section for a conjecture which has been offered. Child: MALE Ecgbeorht, d. 839, king of Wessex, 802-39. ["Æðelwulf wæs Ecgbyrhting, Ecbyrht Ealhmunding, Ealhmund Eabing, Eaba Iopping, ..." Dumville (1986), 24; ASC(F) s.a. 784 (see above)] Conjectured mother (existence speculative): Eabe, daughter of Eoppa. I first developed this hypothesis when my initial search for people named Eaba/Eafa in the Anglo-Saxon charters turned up only female candidates [Baldwin (2003); "Æbbæ abbatissæ ... Eabbæ abbatissæ" Cart. Sax. 1: 122 (#86); "Eabbe abbatissæ" ibid., 1: 140 (#96); "Eafe abbatissa" ibid., 2: 151 (#535)]. The theory is that it is possible that Ecgbeorht had a patrilineal descent from the kings of Kent and yet the orthodox genealogy might be approximately true, in that a female descent is hidden by a supposedly male one. For another likely female descent that was hidden in a similar way, see Alex Woolf's very probable suggestion that Coenwulf of Mercia was a descendant of Coenwealh of Wessex [Woolf (1998), 151-2, 166]. If such a genealogy was composed during the time of Ecgbeorht, it could have become set in stone by the time of Ælfred. This hypothesis is only one possibility among many.
   Page: States that the mother of Ealhmund, King of Kent is Unknown. "Mother: Unknown." Speculates that there was an error made and that Ealhmund's accepted father Eafa was not the son of Eoppa but that it was Ealhmund's mother, Eabe, that was the daughter of Eoppa. This would make the pedigree from Asser the same but would name Eaba/Eabe female instead of male. Eabe, daughter of Eoppa.
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Princess of Kent - Published information: birth-name: Princess of Kent
   Note: Published information: birth-name: Princess of Kent Published information: female Published information: birth: 0762; Kent, England, United Kingdom
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8. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs Eaba or Eafa Princess Of Wessex -
   Author: Royal Index, University of Hull, England, Internet, Internet, www.dcs.hull.ac.uk
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332880681
   
10. Title: International, Find A Grave Index for Select Locations, 1300s-Current
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=60541&h=161382119&indiv=try;