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Persoonlijke gegevens Egbert van Wessex 

• Hij is geboren rond 770.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 839.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 september 2024.

Gezin van Egbert van Wessex

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Redburh.

Kind(eren):

1. Aethelwulf van Wessex  ± 820-858 

Notities over Egbert van Wessex

Koning van 802 tot 839.
After the Romans left Britain in AD 407, the country was raided by Pictsfrom Scotland, Angles an Saxons from Germany and Jutes from Denmark.Within 200 years most of England was under Anglo-Saxon rule, devidedinto seven kingdoms: Kent (mostly Jutes), Essex, Sussex, Wessex, EastAnglia, Mercia and Northumbria. As a guide, Wessex consisted of Hants,Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire. Mercia's boundaries varied agreat deal but could be said to lie between the Thames and Humber. Thecapital of Wessex was Winchester and important towns in Mercia wereLichfield, Repton and Tamworth. King Offa of Mercia was a powerful kingof this period and built the dyke along the English/Welsh border. Offadied in 796. Christianity was practised in the seven kingdoms. In 802Egbert became king of Wessex, and he and his successors are known askings of England. Egbert was the son of Ealmund, king of Kent. Althoughnominally king of England, really he was onlyn accepted south of theHumber. He won a resounding victory over the Norsemen and Cornish atHingston Down near Callington in Cornwall in 836 and also conqueredMercia iin 829 but lost it again in 838. He paved the way for nationalpolitical unification which was achieved by king Athelstan in the 10thcentury. Although Egbert was king, the remaining kingdoms retainedsub-kings or ealdormen.

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