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Egbert
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in Anglo-Saxon Ecgberht or Ecgbryht
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| King of Wessex (802–39). After his victory in 825 over the Mercians at Ellendun (now Wroughton) in Wiltshire, S England, UK, the areas of Essex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex submitted to him; in 828 he was recognized as overlord of England, but his conquest of Mercia itself (829) was soon reversed. He extended his control over Cornwall, defeating an alliance between the Vikings and Britons at Hingston Down (838). These successes gave him mastery over S England from Kent to Land's End, and established Wessex as the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdom. |
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