List of monarchs of Kent


This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.
The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede, who piously expunged apostates, and seems also to have deliberately suppressed details of short or joint reigns in order to produce an orderly sequence. Generally more than one king ruled in Kent. Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with similar or identical names. It is commonplace for the later kings to be referred to as subkings, but the actual rank used is always rex, never regulus. The usual style was simply King of Kent or King of the Kentish Men. Territorial division within Kent is not alluded to, except by Eadberht I and Sigered.

List of kings of Kent