Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons

King of the West Saxons, 802 - 839

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 839.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Edwards.

Relationships

(supposed) Father: Ealhmund.

Edwards, giving what seems to be the current majority opinion among scholars, states that Ealhmund may have been Ecgberht’s father, but his origins were probably Kentish rather than West Saxon, as given in later genealogies. He may have been the Ealhmund who was ruling in Kent in 784.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: uncertain.

Baldwin notes that a late source makes Ecgberht’s wife Rædburh, a sister of the king of the Franks.

Children:

Æthelwulf (died 858), king of the West Saxons. Married (1) Osburh. Married (2) Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald.

References

Anglo-Saxons.net [Gives transcriptions of Old English charters]

Asser. Life of King Alfred (William Henry Stevenson ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Ecgbeorht” in The Henry Project. [accessed 8 June 2014]

“Ecgberht 10” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 9 June 2014]

Edwards, Heather. “Ecgberht (d. 839)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Kelly, S.E. “Æthelbert II (d. 762)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Nelson, Janet L. “Æthelwulf (d. 858)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Plummer, Charles (ed.) Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: A Revised Text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899).