{"slug": "ecgberht-king-of-wessex", "label": "Ecgberht, King of Wessex", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecgberht%2C_King_of_Wessex", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154934", "qid": "Q154934", "description": "King of Wessex", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [769, 839], "span_label": ["769 CE", "839 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Egbert of Wessex"], "related": [{"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-kent", "label": "Kingdom of Kent", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "cornwall", "label": "Cornwall", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-essex", "label": "Kingdom of Essex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-sussex", "label": "Kingdom of Sussex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "surrey", "label": "Surrey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thelwulf-king-of-wessex", "label": "Æthelwulf, King of Wessex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dumnonia", "label": "Dumnonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "somerset", "label": "Somerset", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 769, "year_label": "769 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Egbert, king of Wessex (or 771)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349074717#Births", "title": "769", "revid": 1349074717, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 786, "year_label": "786 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cyneheard is executed and succeeded by Beorhtric, through the support of King Offa of Mercia. His rival claimant to the Wessex throne, a distant nephew of the late king Ine, named Egbert, is driven across the Channel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848276#Britain", "title": "786", "revid": 1340848276, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 802, "year_label": "802 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Beorhtric of Wessex dies after drinking a chalice of poison intended for his wife, Eadburh. She flees to the court of Charlemagne, who accepts a portion of her wealth and makes her abbess. Prince Egbert returns to Wessex, and is accepted as the new king.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848783#Britain", "title": "802", "revid": 1340848783, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 815, "year_label": "815 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Egbert of Wessex ravages the territories of the remaining British kingdom Dumnonia, known as the West Welsh (Cornwall).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348647036#Britain", "title": "815", "revid": 1348647036, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 825, "year_label": "825 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Ellandun: King Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia near Swindon. The battle marks the end of the Mercian domination of southern England. The kingdoms of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex submit to Wessex, and East Anglia acknowledges Egbert as overlord (bretwalda).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941320#Britain", "title": "825", "revid": 1340941320, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 826, "year_label": "826 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Prince Aethelwulf, a son of King Egbert of Wessex, invades Kent, and drives out its pro-Mercian king Baldred.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941323#Britain", "title": "826", "revid": 1340941323, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 829, "year_label": "829 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Egbert of Wessex invades Mercia, ousts his rival Wiglaf, and attempts to rule directly from Wessex. He is recognized as overlord (bretwalda) of other English kingdoms.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941503#Britain", "title": "829", "revid": 1340941503, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 835, "year_label": "835 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Danish Viking raiders ally with the Cornish, against the rule of Ecgberht, King of Wessex (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352237336#Britain", "title": "835", "revid": 1352237336, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 836, "year_label": "836 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Carhampton: Danish Vikings arrive in the Wessex areas of Somerset and North Devon. Ecgberht, King of Wessex fights them but is forced to withdraw.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350026626#Britain", "title": "836", "revid": 1350026626, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 838, "year_label": "838 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Hingston Down: Ecgberht, King of Wessex, leads his men to defeat a combined force of Cornish and Danish Vikings at Hingston Down in Cornwall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941885#British_Isles", "title": "838", "revid": 1340941885, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 839, "year_label": "839 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ecgberht, King of Wessex, dies after a 37-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Æthelwulf (\"Noble Wolf\") as ruler of Wessex. Æthelwulf's eldest son, Æthelstan, is made sub-king of Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex, under his father.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073737#Britain", "title": "839", "revid": 1267073737, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}]}