EGBERT King of Wessex
771 - 839 (68 years)
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Name EGBERT, Title King of Wessex Birth 771 Gender Male Differentiator England's first Saxon overlord. Relation to Me 38 GGF Royalty & Nobility Between 802 and 839 King of Wessex Wars 825 The battle of Ellendun - one of the most important battles in Anglo-Saxon history. Egbert defeated Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellendun—now Wroughton, near Swindon Wars 829 Defeat of Mercia - Egbert invaded Mercia and drove Wiglaf, the king of Mercia, into exile. This victory gave Egbert control of the London Mint, and he issued coins as King of Mercia. Name Ecgberht, Ecgbert, or Ecgbriht Death 839 Person ID I7179 My Genealogy Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father Living Relationship natural Family ID F1729 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Living Children + 1. AETHELWULF King of Wessex, b. Oxfordshire, England 
d. 13 Jan 858 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1728 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Notes - Little is known of the first 20 years of Egbert'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 Egbert 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 Egbert defeated Wiglaf of Mercia and drove him out of his kingdom, temporarily ruling Mercia directly. Later that year Egbert received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Egbert as a bretwalda, or "Ruler of Britain".
Egbert 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 Egbert's son Æthelwulf to rule as a subking under Egbert. When Egbert died in 839, Æthelwulf succeeded him; the southeastern kingdoms were finally absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex after Æthelwulf's death in 858.
- Little is known of the first 20 years of Egbert'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 Egbert 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 Egbert defeated Wiglaf of Mercia and drove him out of his kingdom, temporarily ruling Mercia directly. Later that year Egbert received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Egbert as a bretwalda, or "Ruler of Britain".