Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father...

Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian...

unification of England over the next sixty years and the reform coinage of King Edgar a century later. Æthelred's grandfather, Ecgberht, became king of Wessex in...

Æthelberht became king of both Wessex and Kent, and they were never again divided. When Æthelbald's grandfather Ecgberht became king of Wessex in 802, it would...

his father as king. Ecgberht's nearest connection to a previous king of Wessex was as a great-great-grandson of Ingild, brother of King Ine (688–726)...

Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this...

King of Mercia, or quickly coming under his influence, Beorhtric became King of Wessex in 786, but he had to still contend the throne with Ecgberht whom...

of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were...

west Kent. The last king of Essex was Sigered of Essex, who in 825 ceded the kingdom to Ecgberht, King of Wessex. The Kingdom of Essex was bounded to...

king. No ancestor of Ecgberht had been a king of Wessex since Ceawlin in the late sixth century, but he was believed to be a paternal descendant of Cerdic...

of King Ecgberht in 802. Alfred the Great saved England from Viking conquest in the late ninth century and his grandson Æthelstan became first king of...

of Cornish and Vikings on the one side, and West Saxons led by Ecgberht, King of Wessex on the other. The result was a West Saxon victory. According to...

reign coincided with the continued rise of the rival Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Ecgberht. Ecgberht drove Wiglaf from the throne in 829, and...

king of Connacht Chengguan, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 738) Cummascach mac Congalaig, king of Brega Ecgberht, king of Wessex Eóganan mac Óengusa, king...

list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources...

decade ran from January 1, 830, to December 31, 839. King Wiglaf of Mercia regains control from Wessex, and returns to the throne. June 5 – Emperor Theophilos...

of Hardeknud I, ancestor of the later Danish kings. The saga refers to names found in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, ancestors of Ecgberht, King of Wessex...

invasion of Mercia fails. 802 Ecgberht becomes King of Wessex following the death of Beorhtric. 803 Council of Clofeshoh abolishes the Archbishopric of Lichfield...

was King of Kent in 784. He was probably the father of King Ecgberht who was King of Wessex from 802, and who conquered Kent in the 820s. Ecgberht was...

The Battle of Ellendun or Battle of Wroughton was fought between Ecgberht of Wessex and Beornwulf of Mercia in September 825. Sir Frank Stenton described...

English rulers who were later restored: Eadbehrt of Kent, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, and Eardwulf of Northumbria. Nelson writes that Charlemagne treated...

of Lindisfarne Egbert of Wessex, king of Wessex (ruled 802–839) Ecgberht I of Northumbria, king of Northumbria (deposed 872; died 873) Ecgberht II of...

on the Kingdom of Munster, at Inis Cathaigh. Danish Viking raiders ally with the Cornish, against the rule of Ecgberht, King of Wessex (approximate date)...

said to have been the half-sister of King Ecgberht of Wessex, but she is not mentioned in biographies of Ecgberht. The community was to number 26 nuns...

Wessex areas of Somerset and North Devon. Ecgberht, King of Wessex fights them but is forced to withdraw. July 4 – Pactum Sicardi: Prince Sicard of Benevento...

Kingdom of Sussex had been annexed to the Kingdom of Wessex, and in 838 Ecgberht, King of Wessex donated the estate of Malling, on the opposite side of the...

his own name, with Heahberht on the witness list as king of Kent. Another king of Kent, Ecgberht, appears on a charter in 765 along with Heahberht; the...

some cases, the deposed head of state or head of government are allowed to go into exile following a coup or other change of government, allowing a more...

known mention is made of the city of Rheine, on the Ems River (modern Germany). Battle of Hingston Down: Ecgberht, King of Wessex, leads his men to defeat...

Prioress of Esholt as one of many notable ancestors, the Warde arms being bestowed in the early 9th century by Ecgberht, King of Wessex "for assisting him against...