This article critically re-examines the authority of this Kentish connection, and suggests that it is based on later extrapolation rather than any authentic ninth-century tradition. Other evidence for Egbert's ancestry and background is thin, but points more towards Wessex and its line of kings,...
Egbert, also spelled Ecgberht, or Ecgbryht, (died 839), king of the West Saxons from 802 to 839, who formed around Wessex a kingdom so powerful that it eventually achieved the political unification of England (mid-10th century).Was...
3. 国王爱格伯 ...相互征战多年,最后由威塞克斯国 (Wessex) 国王爱格伯(King Egbert) 於西元八九二年统一英格兰全境,建立了英格兰 …wenku.baidu.com|基于6个网页 更多释义 例句 释义: 全部,埃格伯特,埃格伯特王,国王爱格伯 更多例句筛选 1. At the beginning of ninth century, under their king Egbert the We...
1Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate En...
Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. Learn more a
Cynegils was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, in England and the first to be converted to Christianity. With his son Cwichelm (d. 636), Cynegils defeated the advancing Britons at Bampton in Oxfordshire in 614, and Cwichelm sought to arrest the gro
1Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate En...
1Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate ...
the council system was swept away, but the Privy Council was never formally abolished. It was revived underCharles II(1660–85), but after that the crown increasingly turned to the cabinet. An attempt to return the Privy Council to power was made in theAct of Settlementof 1701 (Hanoverian...
The first such overlord was Aelle of Sussex, in the late 5th century; the second was Ceawlin of Wessex, who died in 593. The third overlord, Aethelberht of Kent, held this power in 597 when the monk Augustine led a mission from Rome to Kent; Kent was the first English kingdom to...