Augustine built a monastery at Canterbury, where Æthelberht founded a new church to SS.
In 613 Æthelberht died, and his son Eadbald at once apostatised, returning to the worship of Woden and the ancestral gods.
The Kentish king Æthelberht found himself hemmed in on every side by English territory; and since conquest over Britons was denied him he sought a new sphere of action in setting his kingdom at the head of the conquerors of the south.
The new religion was carried beyond the bounds of Kent by the supremacy which Æthelberht wielded over the neighbouring kingdoms.
But while Æthelberht was thus furnishing a future centre of spiritual unity in Canterbury, the see to which Augustine was consecrated, the growth of Northumbria was pointing it out as the coming political centre of the new England.
It was to the tongue and the thought not of Gregory only but of the men whom his Jutish fathers had slaughtered or driven out that Æthelberht listened in the preaching of Augustine.
Your words are fair," Æthelberht replied at last with English good sense, "but they are new and of doubtful meaning.
Sidenote: Æthelfrith] A year passed before Æthelberht yielded to the preaching of Augustine.
In these dwellings Æthelberht and his followers lived, and to them had been given the new name of Cantwarabyrig or Canterbury (the dwelling of the men of Kent).
In the end Æthelberht himself, together with thousands of the Kentish men, received baptism.
There is no tradition of any war between Æthelberht and these kings, and he certainly did not thrust them out from the leadership of their own peoples.
The over-lordships of Æthelberht and Eadwine appear very imposing, but no real tie united the men of the centre of England to those of Kent at one time, or to those of North-humberland at another.
But it is clear from the laws of Æthelberht that a regular silver coinage was in use at least half a century before this time, and it is not unlikely that many unidentified coins may go back to the 6th century.
This year Offa, King of the Mercians, commanded the head of King Æthelberht to be struck off," contains all that we may be certain of.
For Æthelberht himself was married to a Christian Frankish princess of the house of the Merwings; and coins of the Frankish kings and of the Byzantine emperors have been found on the surface or in contemporary Jutish graves in Kent.
From the code of Æthelberht it may perhaps be inferred that divorce is allowed at the will of either spouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thelberht" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
