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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details of the...
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  • invasion of Mercia fails. 802 Ecgberht becomes King of Wessex following the death of Beorhtric. 803 Council of Clofeshoh abolishes the Archbishopric of Lichfield...
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    Sigurd Ring (category Mythological kings of Denmark)
    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...
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    English rulers who were later restored: Eadbehrt of Kent, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, and Eardwulf of Northumbria. Nelson writes that Charlemagne treated...
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    king of Connacht Chengguan, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 738) Cummascach mac Congalaig, king of Brega Ecgberht, king of Wessex Eóganan mac Óengusa, king...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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  • Egbert (redirect from Ecgberht)
    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...
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    younger of two known sons of Æthelred I, King of Wessex from 865 to 871. Æthelwold and his brother Æthelhelm were still infants when their father the king died...
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    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...
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    Ælfgifu, daughter of Thored, earl of Northumbria, in about 985. Their known children are: Æthelstan Ætheling (died 1014); Ecgberht Ætheling (died c. 1005);...
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  • was King of Kent in 784. He is reputed to be the father of King Egbert who was King of Wessex and, later, King of Kent. Asser's The Life of King Alfred...
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    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...
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    Lewes (redirect from Heart of Weeds)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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