Ethelbert
Americannoun
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a.d. 552?–616, king of Kent 560–616.
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a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “bright.”
noun
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The section “We Are Lucky She Dared” includes “Some of Us Did Not Die,” a thoughtful essay by the poet E. Ethelbert Miller, a longtime friend of Jordan’s who sketches an intimate perspective.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Contemporaries noted the success of Clothilde’s persuasion in the conversion of her husband King Clovis, and Bertha, the wife of King Ethelbert of Kent, likewise encouraged her husband to convert.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Poet E. Ethelbert Miller, a veteran of the Black Power era, cited gentrification and the decrease in the District’s Black population as reasons to doubt prospects for a Black Power revival.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2021
He is the architect of the university’s soon-to-open Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, for which he will curate the inaugural exhibition with cocurator Mariane Ibrahim-Lendhart.
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 26, 2014
Eadbald, King of Kent, son of Ethelbert, xxiv, xxvi, 95, 99, 127, 348 n.; his wickedness, 95; marries his stepmother, 95, 97; gives her up, 97; converted by Laurentius, 97, 98, 101, 105 n.,
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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