Glossary

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Kings

Note this list does not include kings named within the King Lists but not references elsewhere in Textus.

Æthelberht I, king of Kent from c. 589 to 616 AD. Issuer of Æthelberht’s Code and donor of the land on which the Cathedral was constructed in 604, recorded in the Foundation Charter.

Hlothere, king of Kent from 673 to 685. He may for a time to have reigned jointly with his nephew Eadric, with whom Hlothere and Eadric’s Code is recorded as being issued.

Eadric, king of Kent from 685 to 686. He may for a time to have reigned jointly with his uncle Hlothere, with whom Hlothere and Eadric’s Code is recorded as being issued.

Ine, king of Wessex from 689 to 726. Issuer of Ine’s Code.

Wihtræd, king of Kent from 690 or 691 to 725. Issuer of Wihtræd’s Code.

Æthelbald, king of Mercia from 716 to 757.

Eadberht I, king of Kent 725 to 748. Son of Wihtred. Reigned jointly with his brothers Æðelberht II and Ælfric. Issuer of

Eardwulf, king of Kent from 747 to 765.

Offa, king of Mercia from 757 to 796.

Sigered, king of Kent in 762. Reigned jointly with Eadberht II.

Heaberht, king of Kent in 765 and 764.

Ecgberht II, king of Kent, flourished in 765 and 779.

Coenwulf, king of Mercia from 796 to 821.

Cuthred, king of Kent from 798 to 807.

Ecgberht, king of Wessex from 802 to 839.

Æthelwulf, king of Wessex from 839 to 858.

Æthelberht, king of Wessex and Kent from 860-866.

Æthelred I, king of Wessex from 865 to 871.

Alfred, king of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 until his death in 899.

Guthrum, king of East Anglia from 879 to possibly 890.

Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924.

Æthelstan, king of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.

Edmund, king of the English from 939 to 946.

Eadgar, king of Wessex from 959 to 975.

Edward, king of the English from c. 962 to 978. Commonly known as Edward the Martyr.

Æthelred, king of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016. Commonly known as Æthelred the Unready.

Cnut, king of England from 1016, king of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035, the three kingdoms known collectively as the North Sea Empire.

Edward the Confessor, king of the English from 1042 to 1066.

William I, king of England from 1066 to 1087. The first Norman king of England, commonly known as William the Conquerer.

William II, commonly known as William Rufus, king of England 1087-1100 with powers over Normandy and Scotland.

Henry I, king of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.

Church officials

Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury from 597 to 604.

Justus, first bishop of Rochester, from 604 to 624. Later archbishop of Canterbury.

Paulinus, bishop of Rochester from 633 to 644. Later Archbishop of York. Canonized after his death.

Eardwulf, bishop of Rochester from 747 to between 765 and 772.

Deora, bishop of Rochester from between 765 and 772 to between 781 and 785.

Wærmund, bishop of Rochester from between 781 and 783 to 803/804

Beornmod, bishop of Rochester from 804 to between 842 and 844.

Cuthwulf, bishop of Rochester from between 845 and 868 to between 868 and 880.

Swithwulf, bishop of Rochester from between 868 and 880 to between 893 and 896.

Burhric, bishop of Rochester from between 933 and 934 to between 946 and 964

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988.

Ælfstan, bishop of Rochester from before 964 to between 994 and 995

Godwine I, bishop of Rochester from c. 995 to c.1013.

Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089.

Odo, Earl of Kent, died in 1097. For some years was a trusted royal minister. Commonly known as Odo of Bayeux.

Gundulf, bishop of Rochester from 1075 to 1108. Founder of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Andrews.

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109

Avice, abbess of Malling, flourished 1108.

Ernulf, bishop of Rochester from 1114 to 1124, during which Textus was copied c.1123.

Radulf, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1114 to 1122. Also known as Ralph d'Escures.

William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1123 to 1136.

Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1138 to 1161.

Eugene III, Roman Pope from 1145 to 1153.

Hamo de Hythe, bishop of Rochester from 1317 to 1352.