Æthelberht (Old English:
Æðelbrihte), also called
Saint Ethelbert the King, (died 20 May 794 at Sutton Walls,
Herefordshire) was an eighth-century
saint and a
king of
East Anglia, the
Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of
Norfolk and
Suffolk. Little is known of his reign, which may have begun in 779, according to later sources, and very few of the coins issued during his reign have been discovered. It is known from the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that he was killed on the orders of
Offa of Mercia in 794.