Egbert de Wessex
Egbert (770 - 839), King de Wessex, Bretwalda, first king of England.
Egbert was used three years in the army as Charlemagne, it employed this time of exile to acquire knowledge in the art of the war and in that to control with difficulty. The death of Brihtric recalled it on its native soil, it was the last wire of the race of the Saxon king Cerdic de Wessex, descendant of this conqueror by Inigils, brother of Ina.
It devoted the beginning of its reign to maintain peace and to ensure the happiness of the people. It was only in 809 that it fired the sword for the first time; but as from this time each year was successively remembered by victories and conquests. It invades on several occasions and adapted part of the territory of old Breton. By iron and fire it extended its devastations until the Western ends of the island and the inhabitants of the Cornouailles, exhausted by many defeats, submitted themselves of force to the winner. The Angles of the East committed it to carry the war in the kingdom of Mercie in the center of the the United Kingdom, in 823. The two armies met with Ellendune on the edges of Willy. Beornwulf yielded the victory to its adversary which invades the kingdoms of Kent and with Essex and added them with its fields in 825. By the tender of Merciens and Angles of the East, Egbert was placed at the borders of the Northumbriens, which subjected in 828. It then directed its weapons against the Breton S, penetrated until the center of the Wales of North and planted its victorious standard on the island of Anglesey. By its policy and its victories it extended its authority of the Wessex on most of the island and obtained for him the title of eighth Bretwalda.
But foreign people were going to put at evil this superiority on the indigenous princes. The kings of the sea who were the Danish and the Normands, devastated and plundered spring with the autumn British Isles, these attacks renewed themselves every year. Egbert the combat as of the year 832, it obtained a victory in 835 against these barbarians who had corrupted part of Breton of the coast of Cornouailles. It was its last exploit because he died in 839, after a long and glorious reign.
Be-X-old: ЭгбэртЎэсэкскі
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