Person:Egbert of Wessex (1)
Egbert _____, of Wessex
b.between about 769 and 780
d.839
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  1. Egbert _____, of WessexAbt 769 & 780 - 839
  2. Æthelburh _____, of WiltonAbt 780 - 810
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  • H.  Egbert _____, of WessexAbt 769 & 780 - 839
  • W.  Redburga _____Abt 768 & 788 - 839
m. between about 789 and 792
  1. Æthelwulf _____, King of WessexBet 795 & 810 - 858
  2. Eadgyth _____Abt 808 -
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Name[1] Egbert _____, of Wessex
Alt Name[9] Ecgbeorht _____
Alt Name[1][10] Ecgberht _____
Alt Name[1] Ecgbert _____
Alt Name[1] Ecgbriht _____
Gender Male
Birth[8] between about 769 and 780
Alt Birth[1] Bet 771 and 775
Marriage between about 789 and 792 to Redburga _____
Other[1][9] Bet 802 and 839 Wessex, EnglandReign
Death[1][6][8][9] 839
Burial[8] Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Reference Number? Q154934?
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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 death in 802, Ecgberht returned and took the throne.

Little is known of the first 20 years of Ecgberht's reign, but it is thought that he was able to maintain the independence of Wessex against the kingdom of Mercia, which at that time dominated the other southern English kingdoms. In 825, Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of Mercia, ended Mercia's supremacy at the Battle of Ellandun, and proceeded to take control of the Mercian dependencies in southeastern England. In 829, he defeated Wiglaf of Mercia and drove him out of his kingdom, temporarily ruling Mercia directly. Later that year Ecgberht received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Ecgberht as a bretwalda or 'wide-ruler' of Anglo-Saxon lands.

Ecgberht was unable to maintain this dominant position, and within a year Wiglaf regained the throne of Mercia. However, Wessex did retain control of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey; these territories were given to Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf to rule as a subking under Ecgberht. When Ecgberht died in 839, Æthelwulf succeeded him; the southeastern kingdoms were finally absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex after the death of Æthelwulf's son Æthelbald in 860. Ecgbert's descendants ruled Wessex and, later, all of England continuously until 1013.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Egbert of Wessex, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-43.
  3.   The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 5-6.
  4.   Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 96-97.
  5.   Hist. of the anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 1, p. 362-71.
  6. ↑ (SHEP)A Short History of the English People
    p.xxxiv.
  7.   Ecgbeorht, King of Wessex, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 ECGBERHT, son of EALHMUND Under-King of Kent & his wife --- ([769/80]-4 Feb or [Jun] 839, bur Winchester Cathedral), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Ecgbeorht, in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
  10. ↑ Ecgberht 10 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
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