Gender Masculine
Usage Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Meaning & History
Derived from the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and beorht "bright". This was the name of an 8th-century king of Northumbria and three kings of Kent.
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Sources & References
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, available from http://www.pase.ac.uk/jsp/index.jsp.
- Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum. Cambridge, 1897, page 176.
