艾塞尔伯特为肯特制定的法律(英语:Law of Æthelberht)是日耳曼语族中最早的成文法典,其中规定了复杂的罚款制度;该法典保存在罗彻斯特文集(英语:Textus Roffensis)中。肯特王国很富裕,与欧洲大陆的贸易关系密切,艾塞尔伯特可能对贸易实施了皇家控制。在他统治期间,肯特王国可能出现了自盎格鲁-撒克逊人定居以来的首次钱币流通。后来,他因在盎格鲁-撒克逊人中建立基督教而被封圣。他的庆日原为2月24日,后改为2月25日。
参考资料
^Charles Reginald Haines, Dover Priory: A history of the priory of St Mary the Virgin, and St Martin of the New Work, (Cambridge University Press, 1930), p. 20: "we know for certain that Ethelberht,King of Kent (550–616), about the year 573 married a Christian wife, the Frankish princess Bertha or Aldeberga"
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