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| Name |
Ealhmund Wessex |
| Suffix |
King of Kent |
| Birth |
Abt 750 |
England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
788 |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
23 Feb 1933 |
MANTI |
| FamilySearch ID |
9CJ7-39W |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I13726 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, chart 714.
Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert Fr e derick Pfafman, p E-34.
Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, Eng 104 p. 335, 339; The Royal Li n e of Succession, A16A 225, p. 5; Keiser Und Koenig Hist. GenHist.2 5 p t . 1 p. 95.
Ealhmund was King of Kent in 784. He is reputed to be the father of Ki n g Egbert who was King of Wessex and, later, King of Kent.
He is not known to have struck any coins, and the only contemporary evid e nce of him is an abstract of a charter dated 784, in which Ealhmund gra nt ed land to the Abbot of Reculver. In this charter he is identified a s Eal mundus rex Canciæ. By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to h ave be en ruling directly, as he issued a charter without any mention o f a loca l king.
General consensus among historians is this is the same Ealhmund foun d i n two pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled durin g th e reign of Alfred the Great. The genealogical preface to this manusc ript , as well as the annual entry (covering years 855–859) describing th e dea th of Æthelwulf, both make King Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealh mund , who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingi ld, t he brother of King Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic , and t herefore a member of the House of Wessex (see House of Wessex fam ily tree ). A further entry has been added in a later hand to the 784 ann al, repor ting Ealhmund's reign in Kent.
Finally, in the Canterbury Bilingual Epitome, originally compiled afte r t he Norman conquest of England, a later scribe has likewise added to t he 7 84 annal not only Ealhmund's reign in Kent, but his explicit identif icati on with the father of Egbert. Based on this reconstruction, in whic h a We ssex scion became King of Kent, his own Kentish name and that of h is son , Egbert, it has been suggested that his mother derived from the r oyal ho use of Kent, a connection dismissed by a recent critical review.
Historian Heather Edwards has suggested that Ealhmund was probably a Ken t ish royal scion, whose pedigree was forged to give his son Egbert the d es cent from Cerdic requisite to reigning in Wessex.
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, also kn o wn as Saint Alburga of Wilton.
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