HLOTHHERE, king of Kent, succeeded his brother Ecgbert in 673, and appears for a time to have reigned jointly with his nephew Eadric, son of Ecgbert, as a code of laws still extant was issued under both names. Neither is mentioned in the ac count of the invasion of Aethelred in 676. In 685 Eadric, who seems to have quarrelled with Hlothhere, went into exile and led the South Saxons against him. Hlothhere was defeated and died of his wounds.
See Bede, Hist. Eccl. (Plummer), iv. 5, 17, 26, v. 24; Saxon Chron icle (Earle and Plummer) , s.a. 685 ; Schmid, Gesetze, pp. 10, sqq.; Thorpe, Ancient Laws, i. 26, sqq.