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|birth_date=c. 772

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|office=King of Wessex

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|term_start=802

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|term_end=838/839

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|preceded=[[Offa]]

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|succeeded=[[Ethelwulf]]

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'''Egbert''' or '''Ecgberht''' (c. 772 - 839), (named as ''"Ecgbryht"'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].

'''Egbert''' or '''Ecgberht''' (771/775 - 839), (named as ''"Ecgbryht"'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].

He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north.  Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord).  In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.

He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north.  Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord).  In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.