Another was Saint Egbert, an Anglo-Saxon hermit and missionary.
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The father of Egbert was called Ealhmund, and we find an Ealhmund, king in Kent, mentioned in a charter dated 784, who is identified with Egbert's father in a late addition to the Chronicle under the date 784.
In 836 Egbert was defeated by the Danes, but in 838 he won a battle against them and their allies the West Welsh at Hingston Down in Cornwall.
Egbert married Redburga, a Frankish princess (possibly a sister-in-law of the emperor Charlemagne), and had two sons and a daughter.
Egbert’s prayer was answered, and in fulfillment of that vow he never returned to England, though he lived to the age of ninety.
Egbert wanted desperately to be their apostle in person and longed to make the trip himself, but his plans to travel there were repeatedly thwarted.
Egbert again asked the brother not to tell anyone about the vision, and despite of believing the vision was true, he stubbornly continued his preparations, loading his ship with many provisions for a long voyage.
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