EGGBET - AN OVERVIEW

Small is known of the first twenty years of Ecgberht's reign, but it surely is believed that he was capable to maintain the independence of Wessex towards the kingdom of Mercia, which At the moment dominated another southern English kingdoms. In 825, Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of Mercia, finished Mercia's supremacy on the Fight of Ellandun, and pr