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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 ...
A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. 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 ...
This addition probably reflects the growing influence of Wessex under Ecgbert, whose family claimed descent from a brother of Ine. [8] This Anglian king-list seems to have been a source for the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List , an early version of which was itself a source for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle but which took its surviving form ...
The Queen’s four children are: the Prince of Wales (the eldest son), the Duke of York (the second son), the Earl of Wessex (the youngest son), and the Princess Royal (the Queen’s daughter).
King of England r. 1066: Cristina d. c. 1100 Daughter of Edward the Exile: Saint Margaret of Scotland c. 1045 –1093 Queen of Scotland: Malcolm III c. 1031 –1093 of Scotland King of Scots: Gytha of Wessex d. 1098 /1107 One of several Daughters of King Harold Godwinson: Gunhild of Wessex One of several Daughters of King Harold Godwinson: King ...
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.
A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. 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 ...
The House of Wessex then briefly regained power under Æthelred's son Edward the Confessor, but lost it after the Confessor's reign, with the Norman Conquest in 1066. All kings of England since William II have been descended from the House of Wessex through William the Conqueror 's wife Matilda of Flanders , who was a descendant of Alfred the ...