The Wessex was a Anglo-Saxon Royaume which covers the southern part of the England. Its sovereigns conquered the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Mercie, East Anglia, etc) to become kings of all England. Their dynasty stops with dead of the king Edouard the Confessor. Among the competitors with its succession was Harold Godwinson, Count of Wessex which takes a time possession of the throne but dies in the Bataille of Hastings.

In 871, Alfred Large the makes Winchester its capital.

Kings de Wessex

• List of the kings of Wessex