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West Saxon monarchs

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Alfred the Great

king of Wessex (r. 872–901)

Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ; ; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him as the first King of England and one of the "greatest Anglo-Saxon kings". He never married and had no children; he was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

King of Wessex (r. 865–871)

Ælfweard of Wessex

West Saxon monarch

Cerdic of Wessex

1st King of Wessex from 519 to 534

King of Wessex (r. 786-802)

Cynric of Wessex

Cynric () was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex. However, the Anglian King-list and parts of the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (which may partly derive from the Anglian King-list and was a source for the Chronicle), instead says that Cynric was the son of Cerdic's son Creoda. Similarly, the paternal genealogy of Alfred the Great given in Asser's The Life of King Alfred, includes the name Creoda, while the account of the

Ceawlin of Wessex

list of monarchs of Wessex

monarch of the West Saxons

8th-century English monarch

Cædwalla of Wessex

Cædwalla (; 659 – 20 April 689) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688. His name is derived from the Welsh Cadwallon. He was exiled from Wessex as a youth and during this period gathered forces and attacked the South Saxons, killing their king, Æthelwealh, in what is now Sussex. Cædwalla was unable to hold the South Saxon territory, however, and was driven out by Æthelwealh's ealdormen. In either 685 or 686, he became King of Wessex. He may have been involved in suppressing rival dynasties at this time, as an early source records that Wessex was ruled by underk

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Seaxburh of Wessex

Queen of Wessex

Centwine of Wessex

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Cenwalh of Wessex

7th-century English monarch

Æscwine of Wessex

Cwichelm of Wessex

7th-century English monarch

Æthelstan of Kent

Sub-King of Kent, Essex, Sussex and in Surrey

Cuthwine of Wessex

West Saxon monarch, born 565

Cenberht () (died 661) was a king in the lands of the West Saxons.

Anglo-Saxon royal