A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bertha (of France)
BERTHA, Daughter of Charibert, King of France, and Wife of Ethelbert, King of Kent, during the Heptarchy in England,
One of the wisest and most powerful of the Saxon princes, but a pagan. It was expressly stipulated on the marriage, that Bertha, who was a Christian, should profess her own religion unmolested. Listening to the doctrines of her faith, Ethelbert became a convert to it in 597.