Now a
county in the extreme southeast of
England, Kent was an
Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in its own right. As legend has it, the
Jutes under
Horsa and
Hengist crossed into England in the 450's A.D.
Anglo-Saxon Rulers of Kent
This list would have gotten nowhere without the help of Eric Hall's excellent
website on British heredity.
Hengist (
455-
488)
Aesc (
Eric,
Oisc) (488-
512)
Octa (512-
540)
Eormenric (540-
560)
Aethelbert (560-
616)
Eadbald (616-
640)
Egbert (664-
673)
Hlothhere (673-
685)
Eadric (684-
686)
Suaebard (jointly)
676
Oswini (688-
690)
Wihtred (690-
725)
Eadbert I and
Alric (725-
748)
Aethelbert II (735-
762)
Heabehrt (
765)
Egbert II (765-
780)
Ealhmund (
786,
788)
Eadbert II (
794(6?)-
796(8?))
Cuthred (
798-
807)
Baldred (807-
825)
Kent, Surrey, and Sussex
King
Egbert of
Wessex pushed Baldred north across the
Thames in 825. Kent became a kingdom, bundled with Surrey and Sussex, that a Wessex king with too many sons would give a second son:
Egbert (c.825-
839)
Aethelstan (839-
851?)
Aethelwulf (of Wessex) (851?-
856)
Aethelbert (856-
860)
Aethelbert succeeds to
the throne of Wessex, 860
Kent overrun by the
Danes,
865
The line of rulers of Kent continues in the
node for
Wessex, and then in the
Rulers of England node.