AGES ERA PERIOD
MIDDLE AGES
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Alfred
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Richard III
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Richard II
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Ethelbert
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first English king to be converted to Christianity died on February 24th, 616. Ethelbert was the first English king to be converted to Christianity, which proved to be a crucial event in the development of English national identity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Since Æthelberht was the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity, Bede provides more substantial information about him than about any earlier king.
Detailed explanation-3: -Augustine “ (in Lives of the English Saints) and by many others-including the present writer-that Ethelbert was baptized by St. Augustine in the little church of St. Martin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aethelberht I, (died Feb. 24, 616 or 618), king of Kent (560–616) who issued the first extant code of Anglo-Saxon laws. Reflecting some continental influence, the code established the legal position of the clergy and instituted many secular regulations.
Detailed explanation-5: -Æthelstan died in the early 850s, but the four younger brothers were successively kings of Wessex: Æthelbald from 855 to 860, Æthelberht from 860 to 865, Æthelred I from 865 to 871 and Alfred the Great from 871 to 899.