Æthelberht, King of Wessex
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Æthelberht was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh. Æthelberht was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The
Æthelberht in the early fourteenth-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England
Charter S 331, which survives in its original form, dated 862. King Æthelberht granted land at Bromley in Kent to his minister Dryhtwald.
Coin of King Æthelberht dated c. 862
Memorial to Æthelbald ("ETHELBALD") and Æthelberht ("ETHELBERT") in Sherborne Abbey
Æthelbald, King of Wessex
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Æthelbald was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860. He was the second of five sons of King Æthelwulf. In 850, Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan defeated the Vikings in the first recorded sea battle
Æthelberht, King of Wessex
…was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The following year Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed his oldest surviving son, Æthelbald, as king of Wessex while Æthelberht became king of the recently conquered territory of Kent. Æthelberht may have surrendered his position to his father…
Æthelbald in the early 14th-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England
Fake coins of Æthelwulf and Æthelbald