It was Æthelberht, and not Sæberht, who built and endowed St. Pauls in London, where St. Paul ’ s Cathedral now stands.

The episcopal church built in London was probably founded by Æthelberht, rather than Sæberht.

The episcopal church which was built in London was probably founded by Æthelberht, rather than Sæberht, though a charter which claims to be a grant of lands from Æthelberht to Mellitus is a forgery.

King Æthelberht of Kent was traditionally said to have moved his royal court there from Canterbury in about 597, for example by John Duncombe in 1784, and to have built a palace on the site of the Roman ruins ; but archaeological excavation has shown no evidence of this, and the story has been described as probably a " pious legend ".

On arrival in the south east of England in AD 597, Augustine was given land by King Æthelberht of Kent to build a church ; so in 597 Augustine built the church and founded the See at Canterbury.

Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul, but was reinstated in his diocese the following year.

Æthelberht provided the new church with land in Canterbury, at what came to be known as St Augustine's Abbey.

It is known that Æthelberht married twice as Eadbald married his step-mother after his father's death, to the consternation of the church.

King Æthelberht ordered the church to be erected of " becoming splendour, dedicated to the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and endowed it with a variety of gifts " William Thorne, the late fourteenth-century chronicler of the Abbey, records 598 as the year of the foundation.

First, Æthelberht is made to admonish his son Eadbald, who had been established as a sub-ruler in the region of Rochester.

He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary Western Europe ; the marriage probably took place before Æthelberht came to the throne.

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

The extreme length of Æthelberht ’ s reign also has been regarded with skepticism by historians ; it has been suggested that he died in the fifty-sixth year of his life, rather than the fifty-sixth year of his reign.

It may be that Æthelberht was king of east Kent and Eadbald became king of west Kent ; the east Kent king seems generally to have been the dominant ruler later in Kentish history.

Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent, when the king's successor abandoned Christianity ; he eventually reconverted.

Prior to 762 Kent was ruled by Æthelberht II and Eadberht I ; Eadberht's son Eardwulf is also recorded as a king.

Æthelberht ( or Ethelbert ;, meaning " Magnificent Noble ") was the King of Wessex from 860 to 865.

Æthelbert ( or Æthelberht, Aethelberht, Adalberht, Ælberht, Aelberht, Aldbert or Ethelbert ; died 8 November 780 ) was an eighth century scholar, teacher, priest and Archbishop of York.

It was not, as with the continental Germanic tribes, that Æthelberht had the law written down in Latin ; rather, without precedent, he used his own native language, Old English, to express the ' dooms ', or laws and judgements, which had force in his kingdom.

To the first division belong the laws of the Kentish kings, Æthelberht, Hlothhere and Eadric, Withraed ; those of Ine of Wessex, of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan ( The Judicia civitatis Lundoniae are a guild statute confirmed by King Æthelstan ), Edmund I, Edgar, Æthelred and Cnut ; the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum and the so-called treaty between Edward and Guthrum.

For example, there were four sets that originated in the seventh century ; the first three were issued by the Kings of Kent: Æthelberht I, Hlothhere, Eadric and Wihtred: the Law of Æthelberht, the Law of Hlothhere and Eadric and the Law of Wihtred.

Æthelric was a king of the Hwicce and son of Oshere ; it is possible that he reigned jointly with Æthelheard, Æthelweard, and Æthelberht.

Sculpture of King Æthelberht of Kent, an Anglo-Saxon king and saint, on Canterbury Cathedral in England. There are many indications of close relations between Kent and the Franks.

Kent was rich, with strong trade ties to the continent and, it may be that Æthelberht instituted royal control of trade.

All of the contradictions above cannot be reconciled, but the most probable dates that may be drawn from the data, place Æthelberht ’ s birth at approximately 560, and perhaps, his marriage to Bertha at 580.

Another perspective on the marriage may be gained by considering that it is likely that Æthelberht was not yet king at the time he and Bertha were wed: it may be that Frankish support for him, acquired via the marriage, was instrumental in gaining the throne for him.

The earliest Anglo-Saxon law code to survive, which may date from 602 or 603, is that of Æthelberht of Kent, whose reign ended in 616.

There is archaeological evidence that suggests that the royal influence predates any of the written sources, and it may have been Eadbald's father, Æthelberht, who took control of trade away from the aristocracy and made it a royal monopoly.

It has been suggested that these orders may have been officially committed to writing, in the tradition of Kentish law-codes initiated by Æthelberht, but no such text survives.

It appears that by 694 Wihtred was the sole ruler of Kent, though it may also be that his son Æthelberht was a junior king in west Kent during Wihtred's reign.

The earliest Anglo-Saxon law code to survive, which may date from 602 or 603, is that of Æthelberht of Kent, whose reign ended in 616.

The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht ’ s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.

Æthelberht ( also Æthelbert, Aethelberht, Aethelbert, or Ethelbert ) ( c. 560 – 24 February 616 ) was King of Kent from about 580 or 590 until his death.

None survive in original form from Æthelberht ’ s reign, but some later copies exist.

According to Bede, Æthelberht was descended directly from Hengist.

Augustine ’ s mission from Rome is known to have arrived in 597, and according to Bede, it was this mission that converted Æthelberht.

Bede says that Æthelberht received Bertha " from her parents ".

A charter purporting to be from King Æthelberht, dated 28 April 604, survives in the Textus Roffensis, as well as a copy based on the Textus in the 14th-century Liber Temporalium.

Augustine needed more clergy to join the Gregorian mission that was converting the kingdom of Kent, then ruled by Æthelberht, from paganism to Christianity.

Although Bede records that Æthelberht gave lands to support the new episcopate, a charter that claims to be a grant of lands from Æthelberht to Mellitus is a later forgery.

The historian N. J. Higham connects the timing of this episode with a change in the " overkingship " from the Christian Kentish Æthelberht to the pagan East Anglian Raedwald, which Higham feels happened after Æthelberht's death.

Æthelberht made Kent the dominant force in England during his reign and became the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism.

The ancestry of Æthelberht, Eadbald's father, is given by Bede, who states that he was descended from the legendary founder of Kent, Hengist.

Æthelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert, is an Anglo-Saxon male name, from the Old English eþel meaning " noble " and berht meaning " bright ".

* Æthelberht 789 – 797 transferred from Whithorn

The first part collects the Anglo-Saxon laws from the Law of Æthelberht, attributed to King Æthelberht of Kent ( c. 560 – 616 ), to the coronation charter of Henry I in 1100.