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  2. List of monarchs of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [1] and Asser's Life of King Alfred. These sources are all closely related and were compiled at a similar date, and incorporate a desire in ...

  3. List of monarchs of Mercia - Wikipedia

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    For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. During this period its rulers became the first English monarchs to assume such wide-ranging titles as King of Britain and King of the English .

  4. List of English monarchs - Wikipedia

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    There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father Edward the Elder and his half brother Æthelstan, although he was not crowned. A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father. [7]

  5. Category:9th-century English monarchs - Wikipedia

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    9th; 10th; 11th; 12th; 13th; 14th; Pages in category "9th-century English monarchs" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... King of Wessex ...

  6. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").

  7. 9th century in England - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Government in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    In the 9th century, the Kingdom of Wessex absorbed the other kingdoms, creating the unified Kingdom of England. The king's primary responsibilities were to defend his people, dispense justice, and maintain order. Kings had extensive powers to make laws, mint coins, levy taxes, raise armies, regulate trade, and conduct diplomacy.

  9. Cædwalla - Wikipedia

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    Cædwalla (/ ˈ k æ d ˌ w ɔː l ə /; c. 659 – 20 April 689) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688. His name is derived from the Welsh Cadwallon. He was exiled from Wessex as a youth and during this period gathered forces and attacked the South Saxons, killing their king, Æthelwealh, in what is now Sussex.