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{{Short description|King of Kent from 673 to 685}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Hlothhere | image = | image size = | caption = | succession = [[List of monarchs of Kent|King of Kent]] | reign = 4 July 673 – 6 February 685 | predecessor = [[Ecgberht of Kent|Ecgberht I]] | successor = [[Eadric of Kent|Eadric]] | house = | spouse = | issue = | father = [[Eorcenberht of Kent|Eorcenberht]] | mother = [[Seaxburh of Ely|Seaxburh]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 6 February 685 | death_place = | place of burial = | religion = [[Chalcedonian Christianity]] }} __NOTOC__ [[File:Staugustinescanterburyroyalgraves.jpg|thumb|Gravesite at [[St Augustine's Abbey]] in [[Canterbury]] of four Kentish kings. Hlothhere's is the second from the left.]] '''Hlothhere''' ({{langx|ang|Hloþhere}}; died 6 February 685) was a [[Kings of Kent|King]] of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]] who ruled from 673 to 685.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Hlothhere}}</ref> Hlothhere succeeded his brother [[Ecgberht of Kent|Ecgberht I]] in 673. His parents were [[Eorcenberht of Kent]] and [[Seaxburh of Ely]], the daughter of [[Anna of East Anglia]].<ref>Earle, John. ''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'', Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1865, p. 27.</ref> In 676 the Mercian king [[Æthelred of Mercia|Æthelred]] invaded Kent and caused great destruction;<ref name=Bede_IV_12_223>Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History'', IV, 12, p. 223.</ref> according to [[Bede]], even churches and monasteries were not spared, and [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]] was laid waste. The damage was so great that [[Putta (bishop of Hereford)|Putta]], [[Bishop of Rochester]], resigned.<ref>Smith, R. A. L., "The Early Community of St. Andrew at Rochester, 604-c. 1080". ''The English Historical Review''. (September 1945), 60 (238): 289–299. {{doi|10.1093/ehr/LX.CCXXXVIII.289}} JSTOR 556594</ref> So too did his successor, [[Cwichhelm (bishop)|Cwichhelm]],<ref>Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., ''Handbook of British Chronology'' (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1996), p. 221 {{ISBN| 0-521-56350-X}}</ref> due to the poverty of the see. Hlothhere's rule survived this onslaught, however. He appears for a time to have reigned jointly with his nephew [[Eadric of Kent|Eadric]], son of [[Ecgberht of Kent|Ecgberht I]], since a code of laws still extant was issued under both their names.<ref>Oliver, Lisi. ''The Beginnings of English Law'', Toronto. Toronto University Press, 2002, pp. 126–27, 134 {{isbn| 0-8020-3535-3}}</ref> A law code, the [[Law of Hlothhere and Eadric]], is jointly attributed to him and his successor Eadric. In 685, Eadric went into exile and led the [[Kingdom of Sussex|South Saxon]]s against Hlothhere, who was defeated and died of his wounds{{cn|date=May 2024}}. The information is derived from Bede, but Hlothhere is the earliest Kentish king for whom genuine charters survive. One charter known from a 15th-century copy, is precisely dated to 1 April 675 in the first year of Hlothhere's reign, which conflicts with the accession date attributed to him by Bede. The Charter of King Hlothhere of Kent, 679 survives in its original form. Two further charters attributed to Hlothere (S1648, S1648a), appear to have been altered copies of charters of Swæfheard and Swæfberht. (Kelly 1995). ==See also== * [[:File:S 8 Charter of King Hlothhere of Kent AD 679 (BL Cotton MS Augustus II 2).jpg|Charter of 679]] *[[List of monarchs of Kent]] *[[Chronology of Kentish Kings]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{PASE|17632|Hlothhere 1}} {{s-start}} {{s-reg}} {{s-bef|before=[[Ecgberht of Kent|Ecgberht I]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Kingdom of Kent|King of Kent]]|years=673–685|regent1=[[Eadric of Kent|Eadric]]}} {{s-aft|after=[[Eadric of Kent|Eadric]]}} {{s-end}} {{Kentish Monarchs}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hlothhere of Kent}} [[Category:Anglo-Saxon warriors]] [[Category:Kentish monarchs]] [[Category:Year of birth unknown]] [[Category:685 deaths]] [[Category:7th-century English monarchs]] [[Category:House of Kent]]
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