
Eorcenberht of Kent (1 January 612-14 June 664) was the king of Kent from 640 to 664, succeeding Eadbald of Kent and preceding Egbert I of Kent.
Biography[]
Eorcenberht Eadbaldsson was born in 612 to Eadbald of Kent and Emma of Austrasia, and he succeeded his father in 640. He became the first king of Kent to command that pagan idols be destroyed and that Lent be observed, and in 655 he appointed Deusdedit as the first Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 664, and was succeeded by Egbert I of Kent.