A document from Kent survives which gives the date, March 826, as being in the third year of the reign of Beornwulf. He was the son of Waltheof I, ealdorman of Bamburgh, whose ancient family had ruled from the castle of Bamburgh on the Northumbrian coast. This period of Northumbrian history is poorly recorded, and very little is known of Ecgberht. Evidence of the relationship between kings can come from charters, which were documents which granted land to followers or to churchmen, and which were witnessed by the kings who had power to grant the land. The Dumnonian royal line continued after this time, but it is at this date that the independence of one of the last British kingdoms may be considered to have ended. Very little is known of his reign. Ecgberht was a Northumbrian nobleman who pledged his allegiance to the invading Vikings in 867 in exchange for being made their puppet king of Northumbria, succeeding the vanquished Osberht of Northumbria. [7], Offa of Mercia, who reigned from 757 to 796, was the dominant force in Anglo-Saxon England in the second half of the eighth century. [41] Mercia remained a threat, however; Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf, established as king of Kent, gave estates to Christ Church, Canterbury, probably to counter any influence the Mercians might still have there. [23], In 815 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Ecgberht ravaged the whole of the territories of the remaining British kingdom, Dumnonia, known to the author of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the West Welsh; their territory was about equivalent to what is now Cornwall. [28] The outcome in East Anglia was a disaster for the Mercians which confirmed West Saxon power in the southeast.
Ecgberht of Wessex], Egbert was Æthelwulf's father." [25], The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not say who was the aggressor at Ellandun, but one recent history asserts that Beornwulf was almost certainly the one who attacked. [14] Nothing more is recorded of Ecgberht's relations with Mercia for more than twenty years after this battle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Ecgberht as a bretwalda or 'wide-ruler' of Anglo-Saxon lands. Ecgberht was succeeded by Eadulf I of Bernicia. And the same year King Egbert conquered the kingdom of Mercia, and all that was south of the Humber, and he was the eighth king who was 'Wide-ruler'. The exact meaning of the title has been much debated; it has been described as "a term of encomiastic poetry"[31] but there is also evidence that it implied a definite role of military leadership. After his removal from the throne Æthelwald became a monk, perhaps involuntarily. Nick Higham sees Symeon's account of Guthred's election as an unhistorical record of a settlement between the York Vikings in southern Northumbria, and Ecgberht in northern, English Northumbria.[3]. Ecgberht (auch:Egbert) war der Name verschiedener frühmittelalterlicher Könige im heutigen England: Ecgberht I. It may be that the Mercians were hoping for support from Kent: there was some reason to suppose that Wulfred, the Archbishop of Canterbury, might be discontented with West Saxon rule, as Ecgberht had terminated Wulfred's currency and had begun to mint his own, at Rochester and Canterbury,[25] and it is known that Ecgberht seized property belonging to Canterbury. Eadwulf or Eadulf was a ruler in Northumbria in the early tenth century. [25], In 829 Ecgberht invaded Mercia and drove Wiglaf, the king of Mercia, into exile. Northumbria ceased to be an independent kingdom in the mid-tenth century, though a rump Earldom of Bamburgh survived around Bernicia in the north, later to be absorbed into the mediaeval kingdoms of Scotland and England. Sources on Northumbrian history in this period are limited. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ALCHRED & Archbishop ECGBERHT 765-774 AD NORTHUMBRIA SILVER Ar SCEAT 1,60 gr. Æthelwald faced at least one rebellion, led by Oswine, perhaps a brother of Oswulf.