Egbert Le Grand D'ANGLETERRE DE WESSEX ¹⁷⁷⁷

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title of Nobility: Bretwalda,,. ¹⁷⁸⁰

2. Title of Nobility: King of Kent,,. ¹⁷⁸⁰

3. According to the Chronicle, Ecgberht was expelled from England in 789 by King Beorhtric after he unsuccessfully challenged Beorhtric's succession. It may be significant that "England" rather than "Wessex" is speci
According to the Chronicle, Ecgberht was expelled from England in 789 by King Beorhtric after he unsuccessfully challenged Beorhtric's succession. It may be significant that "England" rather than "Wessex" is specified in this passage of the Chronicle. Ecgberht's father was king of Kent around this time, and it is possible that the expulsion was from Kent, maybe a consequence of his father being deposed as Kentish king. According to William of Malmesbury, Beorhtric was allied with Offa King of Mercia at this time. He explains that Ecgberht had sought refuge with King Offa after his expulsion by King Beorhtric, but that the latter bribed Offa for Ecgberht's surrender and was offered Offa's daughter in marriage in return. Ecgberht sought refuge at the Frankish court until 792. Under-King in Kent in 796. On Beorhtric's death, he established himself in 802 as ECGBERHT King of Wessex, Between 789 and 802.

4. Title of Nobility: King of Wessex, between 802 and 839, in , , Wessex, Anglo Saxon Britain. ¹⁷⁸⁰

5. Title of Nobility: King of the West Saxons (Wessex), between 802 and 829, in , , Wessex, Anglo Saxon Britain. ¹⁷⁸⁰

6. Title of Nobility: Regarded as the first King of England, in 802, in , , , England. ¹⁷⁸⁰

Egbert married Redburge DE HERSTAL CAROLINGIEN about 805 in , , Wessex, Anglo Saxon Britain.¹⁷⁷⁹ (Redburge DE HERSTAL CAROLINGIEN was born in 785 in Toulouse-le-Château, Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France,¹⁷⁷⁷ died on 2 February 839 in Winchester, , Hampshire, England ¹⁷⁷⁷ and was buried in 839 in Winchester, , Hampshire, England ¹⁷⁷⁷.)