General Notes

1  NAME Egbert the Great of /Wessex/
2  SOUR S033320
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001
1  DEAT
2  DATE 4 FEB 838/39
2  PLAC ,Wessex, England
2  SOUR S033320
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001


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Sources: RC 233; Kings and Queens of Britain; AF; Some Prominent Virginia
Families; Ancestral Roots 1-13; Kirby; Pfafman; Young; Kings, Queens, Bones,
and Bastards by David Hilliam.
Roots: Egbert, born 775, died after 19 Nov. 838, son of Eahlmund, King of Kent. King of Wessex, 802-827, and was the first king of all England, 827-836; married Raedburh. The male line of kings descends from him to Edward the Confessor and the female line to the present time.

RC: King of Wessex 802-827. First King of England, 827-839. Male line of kings descends from him to Edward the Confessor and the female line to the present time (1992).

VA Families: "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."
K&Q: Egbert (III), King of Wessex 802.
Kirby: Ecgberht.
Young: Egbert, died 839, King of Wessex, later of England.
Hilliam: Egbert, King of Wessex. Reigned 802-839. "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..." See page 13.

Note: 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.