KENT (KINGDOM) - LoveToKnow Article on KENT (KINGDOM)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
KENT, JAMES (1763-1847), American jurist, was born at Philippi in New York State on the 3ist of July 1763.
KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748), English "painter, architect, and the father of modern gardening," as Horace Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting describes him, was born in Yorkshire in 1685.
The county is roughly triangular in form, London lying at the apex of the western angle, the North Foreland at that of the eastern and Dungeness at that of the southern.
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The principal hop districts are the country between Canterbury and Faversham, the valley of the Medway in mid Kent, and the district of the Weald.
For the rearing of sheep Kent is one of the chief counties in England.
Kent is remarkable as the only English county which com prises two entire bishoprics, Canterbury, the see for East Kent having been founded in 597, and Rochester, the see for Wes Cent, in 600.
KINGDOM KENT(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Kingdom of Kent was a kingdom of Jutes in southeast England, one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.
Kent was the first kingdom in England to be established by the Germanic invaders, and its early emergence allowed it to become relatively powerful in the early Anglo-Saxon period.
Kent seems to have had its greatest power under ?helbert at the beginning of the 7th century: Ethelbert was recognized as Bretwalda until his death in 616, and was the first Anglo-Saxon king to accept Christianity, as well as the first to introduce a written code of laws.
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Oisc (alternately Oeric or Aesc) was an early King of Kent who ruled from about 488 to about 516.
He seems to have been the son or the grandson of Hengest, who led the initial Jutish conquest and settlement of Kent.
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He seems tohave been the son or the grandson of Hengest, who led the initial Jutish conquest and settlement of Kent.
Oisc was evidently regarded by later generations ashaving been the founder of the kingdom or of the royal line, since his descendants called themselves " Oiscingas " after him.
The Kingdom of Kent was one of the original Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England.
There is evidence to suggest that Kent and its boundaries relate to this British sub-kingdom because it was handed over in entirety to King Hengist by treaty during the mid 5th Century AD.
The lands of the kingdom are now part of the County of Kent.
In the aftermath of the decisive defeat of Mercia by Wessex (at the battle of Ellendun in 825), Kent surrendered to, and was subsequently absorbed into, Wessex.
By 694, however, Wihtred seems to be sole king, when, according to the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', "the people of Kent came to terms with Ine (of Wessex)", and agreed to pay compensation for the death, in 687, of his predecessor's brother, Mul.
Heaberht appears as king of Kent in a charter issued (764) by Offa of Mercia at Canterbury.
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The later kings of Kent styled themselves as Oiscingas, meaning of the tribe or family of Oisc, from which we can deduce that Oisc was, to a large degree, the founder of the kingdom.
Elsewhere, though, Oisc is referred to as the son of Octha and the grandson of Hengest.
As the part of Britain closest to the continent, Kent already had a long tradition of trade with the European mainland, and communities of these tradesmen were establishing themselves in Kent during the fifth century.
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It is suggested that Hengest emained at his base and despatched his son oisc in charge of a contingent to fight the Picts, whilst his cousin (or nephew), Ebissa, took the fleet to battle the Irish.
This was unlikely to be the whole of Kent as we know it today, hut the land around Canterbury and the marshland towards Thanet.
The ASC refers to a few further battles over the years as Hengest establishes his control over southeastern Britain, by which time his own success encouraged others to chance their arm in Britain so that by the end of the fifth century the conquests of AELLE and Cerdic are being recorded.
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Kingdom of Kent(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county of Kent in UK.
According to tradition, the first settlers, led by Hengest and Horsa, landed at the invitation of the British king Vortigern at Ebbsfleet in Kent around the mid-5th century.
After the reigns of Hengest and of his son Aesc, or Oisc (from whom members of the Kentish royal house were named Oiscingas)
