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Egbert Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 0769 Wessex, England | | Death Date | 0838 Wessex, England | | Father | Ealhmund Under King Of Kent | Born: 0758 Wessex, England | Died: 0786 | | Mother | | Born: | | | Egbert
Notes: | Egbert of Wessex (also spelled Ecgberht, Ecgbert or Ecgbriht; 769 or 771 – 839) was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtrics death in 802 Egbert returned and took the throne. Little is known of the first 20 years of Egberts reign, but it is thought that he was able to maintain Wessexs independence against the kingdom of Mercia, which at that time dominated the other southern English kingdoms. In 825 Egbert defeated Beornwulf of Mercia and ended Mercias 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 Egberts 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 Æthelwulfs death in 858.
| |  | | Birth Date | 0788 | | Death Date | 0839 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Raedburh queen consort of Wessex Notes: | Redburga or Raedburh was the wife of king Egbert of Wessex and may have been the sister-in-law of Charlemagne as the sister of his fourth wife, Luitgard; other sources describe her as his sister (although Charlemagnes only sister was named Gisela) or his great-granddaughter (which would be difficult to accomplish in the forty-six years after Charlemagnes birth) or the daughter of his sister-in-law or his niece. Some genealogies identify her as the granddaughter of Pepin the Short and great-granddaughter of Charles Martel; other scholars doubt that she existed at all, other than as a name in a much later manuscript, her existence might been forged to link the early Kings of England to the great West Emperor. She appears in a medieval manuscript from Oxford and is described as "regis Francorum sororia" which translates as "sister to the King of the Franks". More specifically, sororia means "pertaining to someones sister", hence sister-in-law. According to some accounts, Charlemagne arranged Raedburhs marriage to Egbert in the year 800. Egbert, who had been forced into exile at Charlemagnes court by Offa, King of Mercia, returned to England in 802, where he became King of Wessex and later king of all England. Raedburhs son Ethelwulf succeeded Egbert. Raedburh was also, according to this version of events, the grandmother of Thyra Dannebod Queen of Denmark, who was the wife of the Viking King Gorm "the Old" of Denmark and the mother of Harald Bluetooth Blataand King of Denmark. | | | | 1 | Children | Birth Death | Mother | Spouse | Grand Children | 1  | Aethelwulf king of Wessex | b.0795 Wessex Kingdom, England
d.0858 JAN 13 Stamridge, Wessex Kingdom | Raedburh | | | 1 Alfred king of The Anglo-Saxons THE GREAT b.0849 | |
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