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United Kingdom - Anglo-Saxons
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Please Note: Research has highlighted conflicting dates or overlapping dates most likely due to joint succession - therefore should be treated as approximations. 
Key: D: = Death
Anglo-Saxons
KINGDOM OF WESSEX
Year King - House of Cerdic
425-450 AD Anglo-Saxon Arrival
519-534 AD     Cerdic  
534-560 AD     Cynric  
560-591 AD     Ceawlin
591-597 AD     Ceol
597-611 AD     Ceolwulf
611-643 AD     Cynegils
643-645 AD     Cenwalh
         House of Iclin
645-648 AD    Penda (King of Mercia 626-655 AD)           
            House of Cerdic
648-672 AD     Cenwalh (restored)        
672-674 AD     Seaxburh (queen)
674 AD     Cenfus
674-676 AD     AEscwine                          
676-685 AD     Centwine  
685-688 AD     Caedwalla
688--726 AD     Ine
726-740 AD     AEthelheard
740-756 AD     Cuthred                       
756-757 AD     Sigeberht                          
757-786 AD     Cynewulf  
786-802 AD     Beorhtric (not of the House of Cerdic)
802-839 AD     Egbert  
839-858 AD     AEthelwulf                         
858-860 AD     AEthelbald
860-865 AD     AEthelbert                             
865-871 AD     AEthelred I  
871-899 AD     Alfred 'the Great'  
899-925 AD     Edward 'the Elder'  
     
Wessex becomes the unified Kindom of England
Earls of Wessex
1019-1051 AD   Godwin (may have been King)  
1053-1066 AD   Harold Godwinson (King of England 1066)*  
1066-1999 AD   Vacant  
1999-   Edward  
     
     


       = Was the most important Anglo-Saxon king of his time and may have been overlord over the other Anglo-Saxon kings as a so called Bretwalda.
* = Also earl of East Anglia
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