Ealhhere

Ealhhere (also Alhhere,[1] fl. 839 to 853) was ealdorman of Kent.[2] In 850, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, granted Ealhhere a large estate of forty hides at Lenham in Kent.[1][3] The following year, he and Æthelstan, the eldest son of King Æthelwulf, defeated an invading Vikings fleet in a naval battle off Sandwich in Kent. Nine ships were captured and the remainder fled.[1][4] Ealhhere was killed in another battle in 853. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, "Ealhhere with the inhibitants of Kent, and Huda with the Surrey men, fought in Thanet against a heathen raiding-army; and many were killed and drowned there, and the ealdormen both dead".[5]

References
  1. Nelson, Janet L. (2004). "Æthelwulf (d. 858), king of the West Saxons". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39264. Retrieved 8 March 2015. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. Ealhhere 11 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
  3. "Charter S 300". The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters. London, UK: King's College London.
  4. Swanton, Michael, ed. (2000) [1st edition 1996]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (revised paperback ed.). London, UK: Phoenix. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-84212-003-3.
  5. Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, pp. 65-67
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