King Æthelberht & Kent's Golden Age 560-616 

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“Bede isn’t really a fan of Mercia” 😂🤣😂🤣😂.... what a classic footnote

Love your voice! Very interesting video!

Enjoyable video. Kent, has been undervalued in the role it has played in England's history, is quite unique. The limited information on Sussex possibly stems from it being only a small enclave with Kent stretching down towards to the Isle of Wight, (Later would Ecgberht 1 have been the patron of Chertsey Abbey in atonement for his sins had it not been part of a wider Kent.) Kent's close links with the Franks shows as the first coinage struck has a very Frankish flavour as do the law codes. The Textus Roffensis is always worth a look.

If you ever read your old videos, I love these, and I listen to them as I play historical games. =)

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Near where I live in east Kent is a place called Woodnesborough , Woden's Barrow. There are 2 barrows, one partly excavated, the other, enormous, with the local church on it: St Mary's.

A bit like Uhtred in Bernard Cornwell's novels, I was born Northumbrian (although if it'd been 10 miles further south I'd have been Mercia haha) and grew up in good old Cantwaraburh, so I got to see Hengest and Horsa's longship at Pegwell Bay and the first Christian church in Kent, etc at close range. Never realised old Aethelberht had been a Bretwalda though. Every day's a school day, I suppose. Great videos BTW. They remind me of Michael Wood. Packed with information but delivered with a lovely light touch. Very watchable and very educational.

i am the biggest fan and applaud all your videos. Just a small comment. Hengest and Horsa were without doubt Jutish. Hengest is described as being from jutland in the finnsburgh fragment, and is also mentioned in several other scriptures. Its agreed that Hengest and horsa first land in Kent and settle their kingdom in Kent. arceological evidence describes the people of Kent as Jutish, so the two devine brothers are not anglo-saxon but jutish. Theres a hidden story here. The Juts are being pushed out by the danes, coming from the eastern islands, lead by Hog Healfdane and his son prince Hnæf. The juts wount submit, and so they send Hengest and Horsa to Brittain, to trick Vortigern and find land to create "the new Jutland". All over Jutland evidence shows a full stop to the cultic places, the fortresess and many of the villages just around 450 ad. The angels and juts had fought for centuries over land and power, but they united against the incoming Danish warfleets from the east, and when they realised they couldnt win, they all emigrated, leaving the land for the Danes. The national Danish symbol, the golden horns, are actually Anglish/jutish, sacrified right around the great exodus from Jutland:) thank you for sharing all your knowledge and keep it up with many more videos.. best regards from Denmark

I love these names !

⭐️ concise in presentation, well researched and a fascinating watch - subscribed ⭐️ Thankyou 👍

History Time is such a brilliant channel! Really raising the level of history content on youtube. I've tried to seek out information about possible culture differences between the Angels, Saxos and Jutes in the time periode described in the video. it's hard to come by information on that subject, it seems, but anyways please do more videos of this type of subject matter. Thank you and the best regards from the old border between Jutland and Angeln.

Great video man. Learned a lot about English history.

bro, you have way fewer subs than you deserve. This is the best History channel on RU-vid! I'd love to see your take on the Dutch colonization of Zuid Afrika and the migration of the Boers! keep it up

I had my genetics results done through 23 and Me and it came back as 66% British/Irish and 34% French/German as I have great-grandparents from Ireland and Bavaria. So I made the comment "Basically I am Anglo/Saxon" and the comments I got were so rude, people were telling me not to say that because it is soooooo racist. I told them the British/Irish IS considered Anglo and the French/German IS considered Saxon, so guess what, I am Anglo/Saxon. It was racist of them to tell me not to call myself what I am because history makes them uncomfortable.

My surname has been traced back to the 12th century, Edwin Cullen a merchant in Canterbury (I still live in Kent) I have 3% Swedish and Danish DNA and I am hanging on to it for dear life!

The Jutes also settled the Isle of Wight and the mainland around it, today there is the Meon Valley named after the Meon who were a Jutish sub-tribe. The West Saxon's later committed genocide on the Jutes in this area wiping out this Jutish mini kingdom leaving just Kent.

Where's the 500 sub special facecam/ prank video reveal?

Awesome stuff! :)

everything saxons, I love.

Could you do a video on the winds who praid upon the vikings.

Great video, I'm surprised you haven't got many subscribers.... I've subbed though... Great content

good info. thank yew gare

I have three points of reference that tie my ancestors to Norway and the Vikings. Halden in Southern Norway, High Halden in Kent, and the Vikings in Scotland, the name is even in the Doomsday Book. Records in Somerset House as well tie up the loose ends. With a family Coat of Arms from the Book of Heraldry from the College of Arms, the premier authority of heraldry in England. “Doomsday Book" - is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. He wanted to know what he owned and how much Taxes he was owed, that was bookkeeping at its finest.

Thank you

Great video mate, really shows how much research you've put into this. One thing about Æthelberht however is that because he's the first Christian king, the chronicles must likely talk a load of sh** about him to big him up as all the others were still pagans, so while he may be called Bretwalda, it's probably a result of later "bigging up" by certain chroniclers. Bede is also guilty of this, even leaving Kent out of King Edwin of Northumbria's tributary states because it was the first Christian kingdom. Also 07:52 that's cute and all but you have nothing on Æthelfrith, Edwin, Oswald, Oswy and Egfrith of Northumbria, just saying ;) Oswy put Penda in the blender in 655 :P

Kent's golden age?? Have you been to Chatham high street recently? Let me tell you, it's golden! (Same colour as piss)

Æthelbert was the 1st christian anglosaxon king of kent. Æthelbert was born in 560 (maybe) and ruled in the late 6th century Kent was the most well established kingdom in England, held a monopoly on trade, and Canterbury, its most populated city, was a metropolis

Aethrlbert was a pagan when he married St. Bertha and probably sometime afterwards. He allowed Bertha to bring a priest from Francia..Bertha is a great granddaughter of Clovis 1: Merovingian blood. Her grandson Eormanred had several children. Any idea if the produced offspring? Word is Merovingian blood went to Mercia and Northumbria. I can't find anything to verify it. Sure would be interesting to find out. Bertha had a huge influence of bringing Christianity to England.

He is on my family tree! I remember sitting around the table at holidays talking about the family going all the way back to him! :-). My grandmother and great grandmother spent their lives researching our genealogy.

How about a video on Ambrosius Aurelianus?

Dude, this is x100 better than any bbc or history channel show. Ethel whatever seems like a pretty swell fellow. If he would not have fought Wessex (I understand it was more rural and no desire to be ruled at all) he could have really fulfilled Bedes records of him being the 1st king of multiple kingdoms.

I am Aethelberts descendant and current heir. I continue his example Noilem Et Clarum

You have the Isle of Wight as part of Wessex. Are you sure it wasn't a jutish kingdom until 661? I thought Vortigern was fighting off the Irish as well.

Yay mercia :D

So can someone please help me with text research on East/West Kent divide?

What’s this song called ?

I love the disclaimer.... “bede isn’t really a fan of Mercia”

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interesting

The Saxons pulled their knives during the peace talks at Mynydd y Gaer in Wales....not Stonehenge.

0:26 it's Hilbert!

0:58 shouldn't that be "uncertainty filled the continent"?

5:25 region called Sandwich. Really??

Seems like somebody did their work.

First, consider re-recording the voice track here. A better mic, and ... it sounds like you may have had a cold. Secondly, it was Jutes, specifically that were hired to come in 449 CE, by Vortigern. Hengist and Horsa came and Horsa died in battle later. The Jutes could have invaded decades earlier but didn't. They politely and strategically waited to be hired and it worked. They were not exiles though many that joined in between 449 and 600 were "exiles, refugees and pirates." The Jutes were elite. England was founded by the most powerful groups of the North Sea coastal areas. Hengist ruled for 40 years and Æthelberht was Hengist's great, great grandson who laid down the first written Germanic law code. The Jutes were proto-Vikings really, rowing over in their keel ships, probably without any sails in those ships, in that time with those designs and builds. They even got up north and assaulted Orkney. The Jutes (and Angles in their war bands) under Ochta and Ebissa, under Hengist, were given land around Tyneside and their descendants are still there. Next, they were given an island just off Kent, then, as payment issues changed the deal, they were given more of Kent. Vortigern apparently traded a lot of Kent simply for Hengist's beautiful Jutlandic daughter, Rowena. Jutes also settled in mainland Hampshire, this is well-known, not just on the Isle of Wight. Later, when Frisians and Saxons joined in, then those areas became partly overrun by them but there are Angles and Jutes still in Hampshire and even East Sussex (their descendants, I mean) and many more areas considered, incorrectly "Saxon." Just because Wessex was later called that doesn't mean it was founded by Saxons; it was not. It was founded by Jutes and Angles, all of England was. Hengist is the first and there's only one first, he founded Ængla Land as it would later be called. Other lines competed of course over time and dynasties rose and fell. Widukind was a later leader of Saxons but he was directly descended from Hengist and therefore, Jutlandic. Most so-called Saxons in England are actually Frisians. Angles and Frisians are the main English groups. Norwegians and Swedes also came in the 500s, well before the Viking Age. Angles were from Anglia, including Jutland, Schleswig and Fyn. Saxons came from Holstein and Lower Saxony, but fewer came because they had so much land in northwest Germany. Angles and Frisians were more motivated due to coastal flooding. It's all on my boards and on my Quora. www.pinterest.ca/markharrisonhir/ and, www.quora.com/profile/Mark-Hirstwood-1

Sorry I mean Wends who praid upon the Vikings.

north sea not the channel

King aethelberth is family of mine. Awesome to see this. Btw, feel free to ask anything about my family's history :)

The 1st King of Britain! I think

WAY TO SHORT

Its like watching the eu today, being invaded by millions of fighting age men

I had someone live here with me in Avon (RG13LA) named Bret.. He was not a good tenant and he had a go at me one night when he came home drunk and couldn't get the T.V. to work.; Make of that what you will in the holism.

Most Anglo saxons had descended from Britons.

***THIS IS MY ANCESTOR!! NOBILEM ET CLARUM! ALBERTS CLAN ARE DESCENDED FROM KING AETHLEBERT! I FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE!! GOLDEN GRIFFIN!! MAKING OUR NQME GREAT!!! Weve always been pagan***

Not my favorite of your videos, though I do love the subject. Perhaps there just isn't that much known about Aethelbert or Kent at that time. Your video seemed to mostly focus on the arrival of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes after the Romans withdrew. It seemed like more of the video was disclaimers about Bede's account than what we know or think happened. The only interesting tidbit I gleaned was that Aethelbert was the first Christian king, and was made a saint for it. Also, it jars me every time you say Jute, as I am Danish and we pronounce it Yute, like Yule tide carol. Same with Juteland. It juts into the see, yes, but it is Yute-land. Not that I expect you to know the pronunciation of every place or be able to pronounce everything, nor do I think everywhere is pronounced the same everywhere, and Jute may be how it is pronounced in England. If so, than by all means, say it that way, as the video is about England and the history written by an English chronicler. Keep up the good work man. Still love your videos, especially about these times people don't know anything at all about.

How my face is like that mask . but bigger.. ; can I have my hat and face mask back please and thanks. Your not supposed to be allowed to read my face.

A lot of people in the UK who love the Anglo-Saxons get super pissed because of the Norman invasion. The ironic thing is 500-600 years ago the Saxons did the same thing to native Romano-Briton people, in a funny way it’s karma.