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	Beorhtric of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beorhtric (died 802) (Means 'Magnificent Ruler') was the King of Wessex from 786 until his death.
		In 786, Cynewulf, king of Wessex, was killed by the exiled noble Cyneheard, brother of the former King Sigeberht.
		Beorhtric was supported by Offa, king of the Mercians against Egbert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beorhtric_of_Wessex (412 words)

	Beorhtric of Wessex (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beorhtric (died 802) was the King of Wessex from 786 until his death.
		The nobles of Wessex, influenced by Offa of Mercia, who had gained overlordship of the whole of England by defeating Cynewulf at the battle of Bensington in 779, executed Cyneheard and appointed Beorhtric king.
		It was during Beorhtric's reign that the first known Viking raids of England occurred: in 789, on the coast of Dorset near the Isle of Portland.
	beorhtric-of-wessex.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (212 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 688 AD-801 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King Sigeberht of Wessex acts unjustly and is removed from power by a council of nobles, in favour of his distant kinsman, Cynewulf.
		Beorhtric's rival claimant to the Wessex throne, a very distant nephew of the late King Ine named Egbert, is driven across the Channel.
		King Beorhtric of Wessex marries Princess Eadburh, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, and accepts Mercian overlordship.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime2.html (3509 words)

	Egbert
		He came of the royal race descended from Ine of Wessex and, owing to his pretensions to power, was exiled by the joint action of Beorhtric of Wessex and Offa of Mercia.
		In his own Kingdom of Wessex he developed the shire system, carefully regulating the relations of the ealdorman and the bishop to the shire.
		His ecclesiastical policy was very favourable to the Church, and at the Council of Kingston, in 838, he gave the archbishop assurances of friendship and certain privileges which considerably strengthened the primatial see.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/egbert.html (517 words)

	Wikinfo \| Egbert of Wessex
		839), king of the West Saxons, succeeded to the throne in 802 on the death of Beorhtric.
		The father of Egbert was called Ealhmund, and we find an Ealhmund, king in Kent, mentioned in a charter dated 784, who is identified with Egbert's father in a late addition to the Chronicle under the date 784.
		It is possible, however, that the Chronicle in 825 refers to some claim through Ine of Wessex from whose brother Ingeld Egbert was descended.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Egbert_of_Wessex (429 words)

	Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wessex was presumably subject to Penda of Mercia during this interval.
		In 715 Wessex would appear to have been invaded by the Mercians since the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' notes that Ine and Ceolred "fought" at a place called 'Woddes beorge' (Woden's Barrow), which is identified with a tumulus now known as 'Adam's Grave', in Wiltshire.
		Barbara Yorke ('Wessex in the Early Middle Ages'): "Asser's words are not without ambiguity and it is not clear whether 'the eastern districts' are Kent, Sussex, Surrey and the East Saxons or the eastern portion of the Wessex heartlands.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /wessex.htm (17205 words)

	Ansedel för Egbert av Wessex
		Preceded by: Wiglaf King of Mercia Succeeded by: Wiglaf Preceded by: Beorhtric King of Wessex Succeeded by: Ethelwulf of Wessex Preceded by: Offa of Mercia Bretwalda Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert_of_Wessex"
		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.
		Unless the Egbert reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to have regained his throne in Wessex in 802 was, in fact, serving instead as a feudal supporter of Charlemagne in Saxony for many of the years following his return to Wessex, Saint Ida was not the Raedburh who married Egbert of Wessex.
	hem.bredband.net /b291914/0001/1_303.htm (1747 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 801 AD-898 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is met by Ealdorman Weohstan of Wiltshire and both are killed at the Battle of Kempsford, though the men of Wiltshire are victorious.
		- The army of King Egbert of Wessex is defeated by invading Vikings at the Battle of Carhampton.
		England is divided between Wessex in the south and the Vikings in the Danelaw up north.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime3.html (2653 words)

	Ansedel för Ealhmund av Wessex
		He spent this exile with the Franks on the continent, and although it is said to have lasted three years, some historians have suggested that this period may have actually lasted thirteen years (789-802), as this would account for Egbert's whereabouts during the whole period preceding Beorhtric's death.
		Beorhtric ruled subject to the Mercian kings (Offa and, from 796, Coenwulf), and Egbert probably sought greater independence for Wessex.
		He was acknowledged as king by the West Saxons following Beorhtric's death in 802, but on the same day as his accession to the throne, Æthelmund, earl of the Hwicce, led a raid into Wessex.
	hem.bredband.net /b291914/0001/1_306.htm (900 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line
		Saxons of Wessex launch an attack on Dumnonia (Devon); Cynegils invades Dumnonia after the death of its king Bledric ap Custennin, defeating the West Welsh under the command of his son and successor Clemen ap Bledric at the Battle of Beandun and forcing him to retreat to Caer Uisc (Exeter)
		Egbert of Wessex is defeated by the Danes
		Death of Aethelbert (Ethelbert), king of Wessex and Bretwalda; succeeded by Aethelred (Ethelred) as king of Wessex (or in 865)
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?srchstr=Wessex (2641 words)

	The Laird o' Thistle
		King Beorhtric of Wessex was accidentally done in by his wife Eadburh, a daughter of King Offa of Mercia.
		Beorhtric’s cousin Egbert, ancestor of the current royal family, succeeded him as King.
		A permanent shift to a new title and status would be a move in line with the way in which the Wessexes chose to forego the HRH title for Sophie at the time of their marriage.
	www.etoile.co.uk /Columns/Ken/060521.html (1414 words)

	31st Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		REF: Fighting Kings of Wessex, Baker: When his maternal uncle Eadberht Praen of Kent revolted from Mercian control in 798, he was captured, blinded and mutilated by Ceonwulf of Mercia, leaving Ecgbert as sole heir of the Kentish throne (thus uniting the rival houses of Ceawlin of Wessex and Aethilbert of Kent).
		When King Beorhtric of Wessex died (abt 802), Ecgbert had no serious competitors to the throne of Wessex either and promptly returned to England from the Continent.
		Ecgbert King of Wessex and Redburga (of Wessex) were married in Wessex.
	www.jex.org /avissterling/b2905.htm (1090 words)

	Northvegr - A History of the Vikings
		The man who had accomplished this aggrandizement of Wessex, who had conquered West Wales (Cornwall and Devon), routed the Mercians, and put his own son to rule over the subkingdom of Kent, was the ætheling Ecgbert, son of one of the petty kings of Kent.
		He had been driven out of England by Offa and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on the death of Beorhtric in 802 he returned to be elected king of Wessex in his place.
		Their object was to surprise Æthelred by a winter attack, and it was late in December of 870 when they marched into the Thames valley and descended upon Reading, where they made for themselves a fortified camp at the confluence of the Kennet and the Thames.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/history_viking/051.php (1973 words)

	Cynewulf of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cynewulf of Wessex (died 786) (Means 'Royal Wolf') was the king of Wessex from 757 until his death.
		It was not long before Æthelbald was assassinated, however, and Mercia fell into a brief period of disorder as rival claimants to its throne fought.
		Cynewulf took the opportunity to assert the independence of Wessex: in about 758, he took Berkshire from the Mercians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cynewulf_of_Wessex (746 words)

	Ecgbeorht King of Wessex
		The capital of Wessex was Winchester and important towns in Mercia were Lichfield, Repton and Tamworth.
		The son of Ealhmund, king in Kent in 784 and 786, Egbert was a member of a family that had formerly held the West Saxon kingship.
		Nevertheless, Egbert succeeded to Beorhtric's throne in 802.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7333.htm (525 words)

	RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Egbert of Wessex and the Saxon (Carolingian) Egbert
		RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Egbert of Wessex and the Saxon (Carolingian) Egbert
		Beorhtric of Wessex, but he returned on Beorhtric's death in 800 [802]
		Re: Egbert of Wessex and the Saxon (carolingian) Egbert by SETTIPANI< >
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-12/0912872813 (856 words)

	Kings of Wessex Coins:EROL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aethelberht was a sub-King of Kent, Essex and Sussex from A.D. 858-860, and a King of all southern England from A.D. Aethelberht took his rightful place in the line of succession to the throne of Wessex at around 30 years of age.
		Aethelred I (A.D. King Ethelred I was a son of Ethelwulf of Wessex.
		He succeeded his brother, Ethelbert of Wessex, as King of Wessex and Kent in 865 A.D. He had two sons, Aethelwold being the elder and Aethelhelm being the younger.
	www.time-line.co.uk /x1909.html (2221 words)

	[MR] Hamelt Precurser? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Farmer suggests that Salome might be identified as Edburga, daughter of Offa of Mercia.
		She was the wife of Beorhtric of Wessex but murdered several nobles and, by accident, her husband---who drank out of a poisoned glass by mischance.
		She was exiled and took up a wandering life on the Continent.
	www.atlantia.sca.org /pipermail/atlantia/2002-June/005757.html (155 words)

	Ef Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spent three years in exile at the court of Charlemagne in Francia, in the court of the powerful Offa, King of Mercia, in contention for the throne?
		789 Current king of Wessex Beorhtric was negotiating to marry Offa's daughter, felt Egbert was a difficulty, suggested Offa hand Egbert over.
		Egbert fled, perhaps to Charlemagne's court having strong Frankish connections thought his Kentish ancestry, possibly arriving around 792.Offa had also angered Charlemagne by trying to marry their children, Charlemagne's daughter and Offa's son, where as Charlemagne broke off all relations with England.
	www.packrat-pro.com /efn.htm (344 words)

	King of England Egbert of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King of Wessex 802 - 829 King of Kent 825 - 829 King of the English 829 - 839 Egbert was from the Wessex royal family of Cerdic, who was considered dangerous enough to Beorhtric, a puppet king for the Mercian ruler, that he was exiled.
		As a result, as an adolescent Egbert spent more than 3 years at the court of Charlemagne.
		At the battle of Ellendun Egbert's forces completely defeated the Mercian troops, with the result, according to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, that there was a great slaughter there. He sent his son Ethelwulf against the sub-king of Kent, with the result that the kingdom of Wessex took in Kent, Sussex, Essex and Surrey.
	worldroots.com /cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I04418@ (209 words)

	[MR] Hamelt Precurser? (fwd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Farmer suggests > that Salome might be identified as Edburga, daughter of Offa of Mercia.
		She > was the wife of Beorhtric of Wessex but murdered several nobles and, by > accident, her husband---who drank out of a poisoned glass by mischance.
		She > was exiled and took up a wandering life on the Continent.
	www.atlantia.sca.org /pipermail/atlantia/2002-June/005758.html (254 words)

	DESCENT FROM EGBERT TO DAVID ROBERT WOOTEN
		OR "EDELPH""ETHELWOLPH""ATHULPH"; SUB-KING OF KENT 825; KING OF WESSEX 839-858 (SURVIVED HIS FATHER IN 839); RESIGNED WESSEX TO HIS SON ETHELBALD IN 856, RETAINING KENT, SUSSEX, AND ESSEX
		998 "THE HISTORIAN"; THEGN OF SUSSEX 973; EARLDORMAN OF WESSEX 974
		ABT 1010 THEGN OF SUSSEX; EARLDORMAN OF WESSEX 1018
	davidwu10.drivinthebus.com /egbert.html (607 words)

	Notes
		father in 839, resigned Wessex to his son Ethelbald in 855, retaining Kent,
		[NI1617] Expelled from Wessex by Penda, King of Mercia in 645 and lived in exile in
		[NI1640] A sub-King of Wessex according to Florence of Worcester.
	members.tripod.com /~Brian_Skelton/notes.html (5512 words)

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