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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.
Mar 19, 2024 · Death: circa November 19, 838 (60-77) Kingdom of Wessex, Britain. Place of Burial: Winchester, Hampshire, Kingdom of Wessex, Britain. Immediate Family: Son of Ealhmund, Under King Of Kent. Husband of Rædburh, queen consort of Wessex. Father of Aethelwulf, king of Wessex.
Nov 19, 2018 · Egbert of Wessex (l. c. 770-839 CE, r. 802-839 CE; also given as Ecgberht, Ecbert) was the most powerful and influential king of Wessex prior to the reign of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899 CE).
Jun 3, 2023 · There is no contemporary source to confirm that Ecgberht became king of Wessex by conquest. Of the first two decades of Ecgberht's reign little is known except that he campaigned against the Cornish. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles record an extensive campaign in 815. [5]
Egbert was the king of the West Saxons from 802 to 839, who formed around Wessex a kingdom so powerful that it eventually achieved the political unification of England (mid-10th century). The son of Ealhmund, king in Kent in 784 and 786, Egbert was a member of a family that had formerly held the
As King of Wessex, after the decline of Mercian power under Offa, Egbert inherited the mantle of 'bretwalda' - an Anglo-Saxon term meaning a ruler with overall superiority to other rulers He came to power in 802 and died in 839, but little else is known about his reign.
Nov 30, 2019 · King Egbert was the first King of England. He was the first man to establish a stable and extensive rule over the Anglo-Saxons of England. He had been exiled at the court of Charlemagne in 802 but returned to England and ruled the kingdom of Wessex.
Egbert (Ecgberht in Anglo Saxon) king of Wessex (802-39), and the first Saxon king recognized as sovereign of all England . He was the son of a Kentish noble but claimed descent from Cerdic (reigned 519-34), founder of Wessex, the kingdom of the West Saxons in southern England.
Apr 20, 2023 · In the tumultuous landscape of eighth-century England, a resilient and ambitious king named Egbert of Wessex rose to power, forever altering the course of history as he transformed Wessex into a dominant kingdom.
Egbert (also spelt Ecgberht) (c. 769 –839) was King of Wessex from 802 until 839. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Egbert returned and took the throne. He was the father of Athelwulf of Wessex.
