The sculptures of a mustachioed medieval warrior king and queen stand ready to knight any of the busy passersby in the city of Canterbury. Unfortunately, few stop to take in the royals. During the period of Anglo Saxon rule of England, separate kings ruled over nine different regions. The territories traded, made alliances, and (when those alliances didn’t work out) waged wars against one another. King Æthelberht ruled the kingdom of Kent from his capital in Canterbury from 589 to 616. Æthelberht was a pagan and worshipped a pantheon of deities, such…
