Ealhmund

Male Abt 758 - 788  (~ 30 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Ealhmund was born Abt 758, Wessex, England (son of Eaba); died 788, England.

    Notes:

    Ealhmund, was King of Kent in 784. The only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated in that year, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver. [1] By the following year Offa of Mercia seems to have been ruling directly, as he issued a charter [2] without any mention of a local king.

    There is a general consensus that he is identical[1] to the Ealhmund found in two pedigrees in the Winchester (Parker) Chronicle, compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great. The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annal 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,[2] 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 Egbert.[3] 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,[4] a connection dismissed by a recent critical review.[1] It has likewise been suggested that Ealhmund might actually have been a Kentish royal scion, and that his pedigree was forged to give son Egbert the descent from Cerdic requisite to reigning in Wessex.[5]

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    Children:
    1. Egbert was born Abt 784, Wessex, England; died 839, Wessex, England.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eaba was born Abt 732, Wessex, England (son of Eoppa).

    Notes:

    Eaba or Eafa. He was a Kentish Prince.

    Children:
    1. 1. Ealhmund was born Abt 758, Wessex, England; died 788, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Eoppa was born Abt 706, Wessex, England (son of Ingild); died 734.

    Notes:

    Eoppa was the ruler of the English kingdom of Bernicia: Prince of Wessex.

    SOURCE: The Anglo Saxon Chronical - p. 854.

    Children:
    1. 2. Eaba was born Abt 732, Wessex, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Ingild was born 675, Wessex, England (son of Cenred); died 718.
    Children:
    1. 4. Eoppa was born Abt 706, Wessex, England; died 734.