Æðelbryht

m (-es/-as) 1. Ethelbert, king of Kent, for 56 years, from 560 - 616 AD; Ethelbert was converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Augustine; [æðele noble; bryht, beorht, bright, excellent]; 2. Ethelbert the second, the second son of Æthelwulf. This Ethelbert, after the lapse of 239 years from the death of Ethelbert the first in 616, became king of Kent, Essex, Surrey, and Sussex, for 5 years, from 855 to 860; he succeeded to Wessex on his brother's death in 860, and reigned five years more over these five counties, from 860 to 865; he was therefore king for ten years, 855-865;