Egbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England mb-code 00816379 looking form the high table

looking form the high table

shown perched on a low tree branch

Circa 1920

The plate illustrates the distribution of the first six pairs of cranial nerves

Oval head and shoulders portrait of Hughes de Lyonne wearing a sash ribbon and cross

Egbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England mb-code 00816379 looking form the high tableEgbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England, (18th century). Egbert (c770 839) ruled Wessex from 802. His reign saw Wessex overtake Mercia as the dominant Anglo Saxon kingdom and as a consequence he is regarded as the first King of England although the title was not used until the reign of his grandson, Alfred the Great.