Christian feast day: Ethelred and Ethelberht

Æthelred and Æthelberht

Princes of the Kingdom of Kent

Saints Æthelred and Æthelberht according to the Kentish royal legend were princes of the Kingdom of Kent who were murdered in around AD 669, and later commemorated as saints and martyrs. Their story forms an important element in the legend of Saint Mildrith, because the…