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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 was King Ealhmund of Kent . In the 780s, Ecgberht was forced into exile to Charlemagne 's court in the Frankish Empire by the kings Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex , but on Beorhtric's ...
7th King of Wessex 625–636: Centwine d. 685 13th King of Wessex 676–685: Seaxburh d. c. 674 (11th) Queen of Wessex c. 672 – c. 674: Cenwalh d. 674 8/10th King of Wessex 642–645–648–683: sister of Penda? Penda c. 606 –655 9th King of Wessex 645–648: Eowa? Cenfus d. 674 12th King of Wessex 674: Cædwalla c. 659 –689 14th King of ...
Battle of Hingston Down: Ecgberht of Wessex defeats combined Danish Viking and Cornish armies. [1] 839. King Wiglaf of Mercia dies and is succeeded, probably in 840, by Beorhtwulf. Ecgberht, King of Wessex, dies and is succeeded by his son Æthelwulf. 841. Vikings raid the south and east coasts, including the Kingdom of Lindsey. 842
Ecgberht II of Kent (died c. 784), king of Kent; Egbert of Saxony [de; it] (fl. 756–811), Saxon nobleman; Egbert of Lindisfarne (died 821), Bishop 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 Northumbria, king of Northumbria (ruled c ...
Ecgberht, King of Wessex, dies after a 37-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Æthelwulf ("Noble Wolf") as ruler of Wessex. Æthelwulf's eldest son, Æthelstan, is made sub-king of Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex, under his father. [3]
The Battle of Hingston Down took place in 838, probably at Hingston Down in Cornwall between a combined force 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. [1] According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which called the Cornish the West Welsh:
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This is a category for monarchs of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.. The question of who qualifies as a monarch of Wessex is sometimes a difficult question to answer. One approach is to say that no monarchs after Ælfred should be included, since from that time forward Wessex ceased to exist as a separate political entity.