 Abt 775 - 839 (~ 64 years)
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| Name |
Ecgbert III of Wessex [1] |
| Suffix |
King of Wessex |
| Birth |
Abt 775 |
Wessex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Acceded |
802 |
| Name |
Ecgbeorht |
| Death |
4 Feb 839 |
| Burial |
Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England |
| Notes |
- Acceded: 802
Reigned 802-839.
In 800 at the decease of King Brithric, Egbert was called by the voi ce of his
countrymen to assume the Government of Wessex, and he subsequently succeed ed
in reducing all the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy under his sway. His reign, a
long and glorious one, is memorable for the great victories he achieved ov er
the Danes.
See Europäisch Stammtafeln Band II tafel 58.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01973
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10262.htm#i102616
Ecgbeorht, King of Wessex was born between 769 and 780.«sup»3«/sup» He was the son of «u»Ealhmund, Subregulus of Kent «/u» and «u»unknown daughter (?) «/u».«sup»2,1«/sup» He married «u»Redburga (?)«/u».«sup»3«/sup» He died on 4 February 839.«sup»4«/sup» He was buried at «u»Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England «/u».«sup»4«/sup»
Ecgbeorht, King of Wessex also went by the nick-name of Egbert 'the Great' (?).«sup»1«/sup» He gained the title of «i»Subregulus of Kent«/i» between 790 and 796.«sup»3«/sup» He succeeded to the title of «i»King Egbert of Wessex«/i» in 802.«sup»3«/sup» He gained the title of «i»King Egbert of Mercia«/i» in 829.«sup»3«/sup»
After the Romans left Britain in AD 407, the country was raided by Picts from Scotland, Angles and Saxons from Germany and Jutes from Denmark. Within 200 years most of England was under Anglo-Saxon rule, divided into seven Kingdoms: Kent (mostly Jutes), Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria. As a guide, Wessex consisted of Hants, Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire. Mercia's boundaries varied a great deal but could be said to lie between the Thames and Humber. The capital of Wessex was Winchester and important towns in Mercia were Lichfield, Repton and Tamworth. King Offa of Mercia was a powerful king of this period and built the dyke along the English/Welsh border. Although nominally King of England, really he was only accepted South of the Humber. He won a resounding victory over the Norsemen and Cornish at Hingston Down near Callington in Cornwall in 836 and also conquered Mercia in 829 but lost it again in 838. He paved the way for national political unification which was achieved by King Athelstan in the 10th century. Although Egbert was King, the remaining kingdoms retained sub-kings or Ealdormen.
1.Unknown article title, «i»Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy«/i», Chobham, Surrey, U.K., volume 1, issue 6, page 409. Hereinafter cited as Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
2. Alison Weir, «i»Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy«/i» (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 4. Hereinafter cited as «i»Britain's Royal Family«/i».
3. Alison Weir, «i»Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy«/i» (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 3. Hereinafter cited as «i»Britain's Royal Family«/i».
4. Alison Weir, «i»Britain's Royal Family«/i», page 4.
5. G. S. P. Freeman-Grencville, «i»The Queen's Lineage«/i», page 4.
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| Person ID |
I4801 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2015 |
| Family |
Redburga, Queen Consort of Wessex, Frankisk prinsesse, b. 774 d. 13 Jan 857, Wessex , England (Age 83 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Editha, Abbess of Polesworth d. 871, Polesworth Abbey, Warwickshire |
| | 2. Athelstan, Sub King of Kent d. Abt 851 |
| | 3. AEthelwulf, King of England, b. 795, Aachen, Kaln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 13 Jan 858, Stamridge, Wessex (Age 63 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1427 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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