Queen Bertha
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Queen Bertha
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 4 Sep 2010
This is one of a pair of statues on Lady Wootton Green, of King Ethelbert Image] and Queen Bertha. Ethelbert was Saxon King of Kent in 597 when St Augustine arrived on a mission from Pope Gregory to reintroduce Christianity to the area. His wife, Bertha, was a Frankish Princess who was already a Christian and daily walked to pray at a chapel that her husband had built for her outside the city walls. He allowed Augustine to set up an abbey, also outside the city walls. The statues show Ethelbert welcoming back Bertha after one of her daily trips, having come past the abbey (the much more modern gate of which is in the background) but before reaching the city.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.278897
Longitude
1.086245