Egbert "The Grand" OF WESSEX ¹⁸⁴⁵

   Another name for Egbert was Ecgberht.

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title of Nobility: Bretwalda,,. ¹⁸⁴⁸

2. Title of Nobility: King of Kent,,. ¹⁸⁴⁸

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. ¹⁸⁴⁸

5. Title of Nobility: King of the West Saxons (Wessex), between 802 and 829, in , , Wessex, Anglo Saxon Britain. ¹⁸⁴⁸

6. Title of Nobility: Regarded as the first King of England, in 802, in , , , England. ¹⁸⁴⁸

Expelled from England: 789, , , , England

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.

Egbert married Redburge OF HERSTAL CAROLINGIEN about 805 in , , Wessex, Anglo Saxon Britain.¹⁸⁴⁷ (Redburge OF HERSTAL CAROLINGIEN was born in 785 in Toulouse-le-Château, Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France,¹⁸⁴⁵ died on 2 February 839 in Winchester, , Hampshire, England ¹⁸⁴⁵ and was buried in 839 in Winchester, , Hampshire, England ¹⁸⁴⁵.)