Ealhere
Ealhere (also referred to as Ealhhere or Alhere) (d. 853) was a Kentish thegn. In 851, he and Æthelstan, the under-king of Kent defeated an army of pagans in Sandwich. Nine ships were captured from the pagan fleet while the remainder fled.[1] Ealhere, titled "Ealhere princeps", was subsequently rewarded with grants of lands in Rochester and Lenham where chapels to St. Edmund were later built.[2]
From 851 to 853, the Isle of Thanet, the most easterly point of Kent, had been targeted by pagans for its small but fruitful cornfields.[3] As such, in 853, Ealhere and the men of Kent alongside Huda and the men of Surrey engaged in a naval battle with the pagans on Thanet, where both earls were slain.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Giles, John Allen, ed. (1847), Annals of the Reign of Alfred the Great (PDF), London, p. 4
- ^ O'Neill, E. "Corolla Sancti Eadmundi: The Garland of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr". JSTOR 550021. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ Kent Archaeological Society (1878). "Archaeological Notes on Thanet Robertson". Archaeologia Cantiana (PDF). 12. p. 349.
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