Brother Egbert responded in the calm, patient tone of someone addressing a hysteric. |
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He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert. |
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With the union of the heptarchy under the crown of Egbert, the heptarchic Witenagemots were merged in a single Witenagemot for united England. |
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As early as 1748 the Dutch journalist and encyclopedist Egbert Buys reflected on the complexities involved. |
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Hale-Rowe pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and testified against Langsner and Egbert. |
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Egbert of Wessex was another refugee from Offa who took shelter at the Frankish court. |
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In 827, Northumbria submitted to Egbert of Wessex at Dore, briefly making Egbert the first king to reign over a united England. |
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During the period of the reigns from Egbert to Alfred the Great, the kings of Wessex emerged as Bretwalda, unifying the country. |
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Another ealdorman, Wiglaf, subsequently ruled for less than two years before being driven out of Mercia by Egbert. |
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Under Egbert, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Essex, and Mercia, along with parts of Dumnonia, were conquered. |
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The last king of Essex was Sigered and in 825, he ceded the kingdom to Egbert of Wessex. |
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No king of Wessex was to venture so far east until Egbert, over a hundred years later. |
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In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild. |
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Offa rescinded grants made to Canterbury by Egbert, and it is also known that Jaenberht claimed the monastery of Cookham, which was in Offa's possession. |
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The ascendency of the Mercians came to an end in 825, when they were soundly beaten under Beornwulf at the Battle of Ellendun by Egbert of Wessex. |
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For example, Offa, king of Mercia, and Egbert, king of Wessex, are sometimes described as kings of England by popular writers, but not by all historians. |
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After the defeat of the Mercian king Beornwulf around AD 825, Sigered, the last king of Essex, ceded the kingdom which then became a possession of the Wessex king Egbert. |
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His acting flag captain, Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, on the Brederode kept up fleet morale by not lowering Tromp's standard, pretending Tromp was still alive. |
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