King Egbert (775 - 838) was my 37th great grandfather

 

Howie and I are watching the second season of Vikings and it is so cool to see my ancestors portrayed in this show.

 

King Egbert AKA Ecgberht, King of Wessex (775 - 838) was my 37th great grandfather

 

• Redburh Wessex (788 - 839) wife of King Egbert

• Ethelwulf Wessex son of Redburh Wessex

• Alfred LeGrand Roi D Angleterre son of Ethelwulf Wessex

• Edward I England (871 - 924) son of Alfred LeGrand Roi D Angleterre

• Eadgifu Edgifu Daughter of Edward the Elder daughter of Edward I England

• Guillaume Aquitaine son of Eadgifu Edgifu Daughter of Edward the Elder

• Adelaide Of Aquitaine ( - 1004) daughter of Guillaume Aquitaine

• Robert Capet ( - 1031) son of Adelaide Of Aquitaine

• Adela Capet (1003 - 1079) daughter of Robert Capet

• Robert I De Flanders (1035 - 1093) son of Adela Capet

• Robert Fleming (1065 - 1111) son of Robert I De Flanders

• Freskin LeFleming (1107 - 1172) son of Robert Fleming

• William Freskin DeMoray (1139 - 1204) son of Freskin LeFleming

• William DeMoravia (1164 - 1195) son of William Freskin DeMoray

• William Murray (1195 - ) son of William DeMoravia

• Margaret Murray (1220 - 1250) daughter of William Murray

• John DeMontgomerie (1244 - 1357) son of Margaret Murray

• Alexander Montgomery (1305 - 1380) son of John DeMontgomerie

• Montgomery (1334 - ) daughter of Alexander Montgomery

• John Sempill (1360 - 1397) son of Montgomery

• Robert Sempill (1421 - 1478) son of John Sempill

• William Sempill (1420 - 1480) son of Robert Sempill

• Thomas Semphill (1420 - 1488) son of William Sempill

• Marion Semple (1460 - ) daughter of Thomas Semphill

• Margaret Stewart (1490 - ) daughter of Marion Semple

• Patrick Hannay (1530 - 1581) son of Margaret Stewart

• Donald Hannah (1560 - 1620) son of Patrick Hannay

• Alexander Hannah (1560 - 1612) son of Donald Hannah

• Alexander Hanna (1600 - 1640) son of Alexander Hannah

• Robert Hanna (1680 - 1749) son of Alexander Hanna

• Robert Hanna (1695 - 1758) son of Robert Hanna

• Thomas Hanna (1720 - 1764) son of Robert Hanna

• John Hanna (1752 - 1832) son of Thomas Hanna

• Thomas Hanna (1790 - 1855) son of John Hanna

• Elizabeth Hanna (1821 - 1912) daughter of Thomas Hanna

• Mary Elizabeth Steel (1852 - 1932) daughter of Elizabeth Hanna

• Samuel Steel Fisher (1875 - 1950) son of Mary Elizabeth Steel

• Sara Maude Fisher (1913 - 2000) daughter of Samuel Steel Fisher

• Vernon Charles Stairs (1941 - ) son of Sara Maude Fisher

• Carole Ann Stairs Baskin You are the daughter of Vernon Charles Stairs

 

Ecgberht (771/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, or Ecgbriht, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Ecgberht was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Ecgberht returned and took the throne.

 

Little is known of the first 20 years of Ecgberht's reign, but it is thought that he was able to maintain the independence of Wessex against the kingdom of Mercia, which at that time dominated the other southern English kingdoms. In 825 Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of Mercia, ended Mercia's supremacy at the Battle of Ellandun, and proceeded to take control of the Mercian dependencies in southeastern England. In 829 he defeated Wiglaf of Mercia and drove him out of his kingdom, temporarily ruling Mercia directly. Later that year Ecgberht received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Ecgberht as a bretwalda or 'wide-ruler' of Anglo-Saxon lands.

 

Ecgberht was unable to maintain this dominant position, and within a year Wiglaf regained the throne of Mercia. However, Wessex did retain control of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey; these territories were given to Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf to rule as a subking under Ecgberht. When Ecgberht died in 839, Æthelwulf succeeded him; the southeastern kingdoms were finally absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex after Æthelwulf