Gafulford
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Gafulford is the site of a battle in South West England known from the first entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 823 AD : "Her wæs Weala gefeoht Defna æt Gafulford". A translation is: "there was a
A 13th century depiction of Egbert of Wessex
Ecgberht, King of Wessex
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Ecgberht, also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was King Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s, Ecgberht was forced into
Coin of King Ecgberht
Charter S 1438, in which King Ecgberht and the Archbishop of Canterbury promised mutual support of the church and the West Saxon crown at the Council of Kingston in 838.
16th-century mortuary chest, one in a series set up by Bishop Foxe in Winchester Cathedral, which purports to contain Ecgberht's bones