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Name: Kingdom of Kent (Mercia)

Type: Polity

Start: 765 AD

End: 825 AD

Nation: kingdom of kent

Parent: kingdom of mercia

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Was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England, one of the polities founded by the Saxons in Post-Roman Britain. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century CE. After intermittent periods of domains by Mercia and Wessex, it was finally absorbed by the latter.

Establishment


  • January 765: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Mercia.
  • Chronology


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    1. Mercian Supremacy


    Was a period in the history of England when the kingdom of Mercia dominated the Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms.

  • January 770: The Kingdom of Kent ceases to be a vassal of Mercia.
  • January 786: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Mercia.
  • January 797: The Kingdom of Kent ceases to be a vassal of Mercia.
  • January 799: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Mercia.

  • 2. Conquests of Ecgberth of Wessex


    Were the conquests by king Ecgberth of Wessex in England.

  • January 826: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Wessex.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 826: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Wessex.
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