Egbert King Of Wessex 
Egbert King Of was born in 0775 in Wessex, England . Egbert King Of 's father was Ealhmund Under King Of Kent and his mother was Princess Of Kent . His maternal grandfather was Ethelbert (Athelbert) II Of Kent. He was an only child. He died in Wessex Kingdom, Saxony, England .General Notes
Male line of kings descends from him to Edward the Confessor and the female line to the present time (1992).
He united the seven kingdoms of Britain, known as the Heptarchy, into the one Kingdom of England Prior to that event he was King ofthe Saxon Kingdom of Wessex."
The seven Saxon kingdoms each lasted for about three hundred years, until finally King Egbert of Wessex [West Saxony] was hailed as Bretwalda' or sole ruler of Britain' round about the year AD 825. For this reason, Egbert is generally recognised as the first English king...
In 825 Egbert annexed Kent, Surrey, Essex and Sussex. In 829 Mercia fell to Egbert and Northumbria soon acknowledged his lordship. As the overlord of all the English Kings he is considered the first King of England. "The Oxford History of Britain" Kenneth O. Morgan. The House of Wessex lineage traced from "The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy" John Cannon & Ralp Griffiths.
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- b.~ 0758 in Wessex, England d.0788
- b.0775 in Wessex, England d.19 Nov 838 in Wessex Kingdom, Saxony, England
- b.0652 in Kent, England d.0673 in Kent, England
- b.~ 0673 in Kent, England d.0725 in Kent, England
- b.~ 0691 in Kent, England d.0762 in Kent, England
- b.~ 0673 in Kent, England
- b.~ 0762
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