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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 ...
Year 769 was a common year starting on Sunday (link ... Egbert, king of Wessex (or 771) Pepin the Hunchback, the first child of Charlemagne; Deaths.
23rd King of Wessex 858–860: Æthelberht c. 835 –865 24th King of Wessex 860–865: Æthelred I c. 847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the Great c ...
6. She was also 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert, King of Wessex from 802 and King of England from 827 to 839. 7. Aged five weeks, she was christened in the chapel at Buckingham Palace.
769. Du Yuanying, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 833) Egbert, king of Wessex (or 771) Pepin the Hunchback, the first child of Charlemagne; Deaths
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. 876–883) Ekbert of Wetigau (fl. 889–c. 930), Saxon nobleman; Egbert (archbishop of Trier) (c. 950–993) Egbert of Liège (fl. c. 1023), educator and author
Coenwulf was the last of a series of Mercian kings, beginning with Penda in the early 7th century, to exercise dominance over most or all of southern England. In the years after his death, Mercia's position weakened, and the battle of Ellendun in 825 firmly established Egbert of Wessex as the dominant king south of the Humber. [74]
The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, the House of the West Saxons, the House of the Gewisse, the Cerdicings and the West Saxon dynasty, refers to the family, traditionally founded by Cerdic of the Gewisse, that ruled Wessex in Southern England from the early 6th century.