Many of the dates of this time are unreliable and the list contains substantial gaps. The genealogy of the Kings has been largely lost: some of those listed are known only from charters, and some may have been sub-kings of the Haestingas (within present-day East Sussex).
The names are given in modern English form followed by the names and titles (as far as is known) in contemporary Anglo-Saxon English and Latin, being the prevalent/('official') languages of the time.
This was a time when spellings varied widely, even within a document. A number of variations of the details below exist. Amongst these are the preference between þ and ð (hard and soft 'th').
Sussex is a maritime County, bounded on the north by Surrey, on the east and north east by Kent, on the west by Hampshire, and on the south by the English Channel.
It is a long and narrow strip of land, measuring 76 miles from east to west and varies from 20 to 27 miles from north to south.
Arundel is a picturesque and beautiful town in Sussex dominated by an 11th Century Norman...
The dates of Æðelberht’s reign are unknown beyond the fact that it overlapped at least in part with the bishopship of Sigeferth of Selsey, as Sigeferth witnessed an undated charter of Æðelberht [1] in which Æðelberht is styled Ethelbertus rex Sussaxonum.
Both state that they were written by the king, and in No. X confixi is a very unusual word for this; it means literally 'pinned together', hence here 'put together' or 'compiled'.
The early eighth century was age of enlightened kings: Ealdfrið and Eadberht of Northumbria and Ine of Wessex are examples.
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