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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