Wessex
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The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
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519 — 927 Wessex
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Wessex 800AD
Athelwulf
Wessex6
OS map of Neolithic Wessex
John Player & Sons Tobacco Company cigarette card showing the 1st Wessex Field Ambulance in 1908.
About Britain No. 2 Wessex
The threefold division of England circa 1115- Evidence for settlement in the 5th to 7th centuries AD - chapter published in 1994
- The Growth of Wessex - scientific article published in 1954, online
- The Growth of Wessex - scientific article published in 1954, online
- Royal Succession and the Growth of Political Stability in Ninth-Century Wessex - , 2002
- The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region, and their bearing on the history of Wessex, circa AD 400-700 - doctoral thesis by Tania Marguerite Dickinson, 1977, online
- In the Shadow of the Church: early medieval burial practices in the Wessex heartlands, c. AD 600–1100 - doctoral thesis by Annia Cherryson, Q1860, 2005, online
- The Origins of Wessex pilot project: the archaeology of the Gewisse - scientific article published in January 2012, online
- The Growth of the Roof-tile Industry in Later Medieval Wessex - scientific article published in January 1991
- Early medieval garnet-inlaid metalwork: A comparative analysis of disc brooches from early Wessex - article published in 2020
- Wessex in the early Middle Ages - book published in 1995
- Disturbing the dead: urbanisation, the church and the post-burial treatment of human remains in early medieval Wessex - scientific article published in 2007
- The Origins of Wessex Pilot Project - scientific article published in 2013, online
- Trade and Exchange in Anglo-Saxon Wessex, cAD 600–780 - , 2016
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | 556 | Battle of Beran Byrig | battle, Kingdom of Wessex, Celtic Britons | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 577 | Battle of Deorham | Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Celtic Britons | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 660 | Battle of Peonnum | battle, Kingdom of Wessex, Celtic Britons | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 779 | Battle of Bensington | Kingdom of Mercia, Kingdom of Wessex, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 825 | Battle of Ellandun | Kingdom of Mercia, battle, Kingdom of Wessex | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 851 | Battle of Aclea | Vikings, Kingdom of Wessex, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 851 | Battle of Sandwich (851) | Kingdom of Wessex, Vikings, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 871 | Battle of Englefield | Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Danelaw, Æthelwulf | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 871 | Battle of Ashdown | battle, Kingdom of Wessex, Vikings, Alfred the Great, Bagsecg, Halfdan Ragnarsson | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 871 | Battle of Reading | Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Danelaw, Æthelred I, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Bagsecg | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 871 | Battle of Basing | Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Æthelred I, Danelaw | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 878 | Battle of Chippenham | Great Heathen Army, Kingdom of Wessex, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 878 | Battle of Cynwit | Kingdom of Wessex, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 878 | Battle of Edington | Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Great Heathen Army | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 893 | Battle of Buttington | Vikings, Kingdom of Mercia, Kingdom of Wessex, battle, Welsh people | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 894 | Battle of Benfleet | Vikings, Kingdom of Wessex, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 910 | Battle of Tettenhall | Vikings, Kingdom of Mercia, battle, Kingdom of Wessex | Wikidata |
| event | war | 899 | Æthelwold's Revolt | war, Kingdom of Mercia, Kent, Kingdom of Wessex, Æthelwold of Wessex | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Wessex 800AD | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Athelwulf | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Wessex6 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | OS map of Neolithic Wessex | Commons | ||
| commons | image | John Player & Sons Tobacco Company cigarette card showing the 1st Wessex Field Ambulance in 1908. | Commons | ||
| commons | image | About Britain No. 2 Wessex | Commons | ||
| commons | image | The threefold division of England circa 1115 | Commons | ||
