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EADBALD (d. 64o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EADBALD (d. 64o) , See also:king of See also:Kent, succeeded to the See also:throne on the See also:death of his See also:father AEthelberht in 616. He had not been influenced by the teaching of the See also:Christian missionaries, and his first step on his See also:accession was to marry his father's widow. After his subsequent See also:conversion by See also:Laurentius, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, he recalled the bishops See also:Mellitus and Justus, and built a See also:church dedicated to the Virgin at Canterbury. He arranged a See also:marriage between his See also:sister fEthelberg and See also:Edwin of See also:Northumbria, on whose defeat and death in 633 he received his sister and See also:Paulinus, and offered the latter the bishopric of See also:Rochester. Eadbald married Emma, a Frankish princess, and died on the loth of See also:January 64o. See See also:Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (ed. C. Plummer, See also:Oxford, 1896) ; Saxon See also:Chronicle (ed. J. See also:Earle and C. Plummer, Oxford, 1899).

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