The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons (c. 880927)
Wessex, this kingdom was the vision of Alfred the Great and the beginning of what would become the kingdom of England.
Alfred the Great, 871900.
Edward the Elder, 90024.
lfweard, 924. Son of Edward the Elder, recognised in Wessex. d. 924.
Athelstan, 92439. Son of Edward the Elder, recognised in Mercia and then in the whole kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons after lfweards death. In 927 the expanded kingdom under Athelstan became known as the Kingdom of the English.
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