Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 450 – 871

Kingdom of Kent

A state of 450 – 871 — 421 years in Europe. The atlas records 12 things within it — people 12. Its line of rulers holds 18 people, 13 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
421 years
450 – 871
Rulers
18
the king of Kent
Most ground
4,300 km²
in 490
Within it
12
recorded rows
Map: Kingdom of Kent in 490, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Kent in 490, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4,300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Kent: 450 – 871

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of king of Kent - the office this state names as its head of state.

Æthelberht of Kent · 580 – 612 · died in office, manner not recordedEcgberht of Kent · 664 – 673 · no death date to read the end againstHlothhere of Kent · 673 – 685 · no death date to read the end againstWihtred of Kent · 690 – 725 · died in office, manner not recordedEadbert I of Kent · 725 – 748 · died in office, manner not recordedÆthelbert II of Kent · 725 – 762 · died in office, manner not recordedEardwulf of Kent · 747 – 765 · no death date to read the end againstEgbert II of Kent · 765 – 779 · no death date to read the end againstEalhmund of Kent · 778 – 779 · no death date to read the end againstEadberht III Præn · 796 – 798 · left office aliveCuthred of Kent · 798 – 807 · died in office, manner not recordedCeolwulf I of Mercia · 821 – 823 · died in office, manner not recordedÆthelberht · 860 – 865 · died in office, manner not recorded500600700800
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Æthelberht of Kent580 – 61232 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ecgberht of Kent664 – 6739 yearsending not on record
Hlothhere of Kent673 – 68512 yearsending not on recordsibling
Wihtred of Kent690 – 72535 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonenephew or niece
Eadbert I of Kent725 – 74823 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Æthelbert II of Kent725 – 76237 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling
Eardwulf of Kent747 – 76518 yearsending not on recordnephew or niece
Egbert II of Kent765 – 77914 yearsending not on record
Ealhmund of Kent778 – 7791 yearending not on record
Eadberht III Præn796 – 7982 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Cuthred of Kent798 – 8079 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ceolwulf I of Mercia821 – 8232 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling
Æthelberht860 – 8655 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

18 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 580 – 865. Median reign 12 years. 3 of 12 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

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4,300 km² in 500, 4,200 km² in 750; at its largest 4,300 km² in 500. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

400 – 499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other400500 – 599: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other500600 – 699: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other600700 – 799: 5 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other700800 – 899: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other800

500 – 5991 row

600 – 6993 rows

700 – 7995 rows

800 – 8993 rows

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood421 years

    stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held4,300 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 8% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median12 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record18

    has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q328818 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.