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Rulers: Kent

*Hengest, legendary founder of Kent (*455-88)
*Æsc, legendary ruler of Kent (*488-512)
Irminric, king of Kent ([by c.575] - 581x588)
Æthelberht I, king of Kent (581x588 - 24 February 616) [received Augustine]
Eadbald, king of Kent (616 - 20 January 640)
Earconberht, king of Kent (640 - 14 July 664)
Ecgberht I, king of Kent (664 - 4 July 673)
Hlothhere, king of Kent (673 - 6 February 685 [from wounds in battle with Eadric])
Eadric, king of Kent (685-6)
Wihtred, king of Kent (690 - 23 April 725 [Kent splits into two kingdoms])
Eadberht I, king of half Kent (725-48)
Eardwulf, king of half Kent (748 - [before 762])
Sigered, king of half Kent ([before 762] - 764 [Offa])
Æthelberht II, king of half Kent (725-62)
Eadberht II, king of half Kent (762 - 764 [Offa])
Ecgberht II, king of Kent (776 [regains independence from Offa] - 779x784)
Ealhmund, king of Kent (779x784 - 785 [Offa regains control])
Eadberht Præn, king of Kent (796 [Offa's death] - 798 [captured])
Cuthred of Mercia, subking of Kent from brother Coenwulf (798-807)
Bealdred (of Mercia?), ruler of Kent, perhaps as subking for Beornred (823 - 825 [Kent submits to Æthelwulf of Wessex])

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Rulers: Mercia

Cearl, king of Mercia in early seventh century
Penda, king of Mercia (626 - 15 November 655 [Battle of Winwæd])
Wulfhere, king of Mercia (658-75)
Æthelred, king of Mercia (675 - 704 [resigned, became a monk])
Coenred, king of Mercia (704-9 [resigned, went to Rome])
Ceolred, king of Mercia (709-16)
Æthelbald, king of Mercia (716-57)
Beornred, king of Mercia (757)
Offa, king of Mercia (757 - 29 July 796)
Ecgfrith, king of Mercia (796 - 17 December 796)
Coenwulf, king of Mercia (796 - 821)
Ceolwulf I, king of Mercia (821-3)
Beornwulf, king of Mercia (823-5)
Ludeca, king of Mercia (825-7)
Wiglaf, king of Mercia (827-9 [defeated by Ecgberht of Wessex], 830-40)
Beorhtwulf, king of Mercia (840-52)
Burgred, king of Mercia (852-74)
Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia (874-877/9? [defeated by Vikings])
Ealdorman Æthelred, leader of Mercia, under Alfred the Great by 883 (879x883-911)
Lady Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred, husband of Æthelred, led Mercia under Alfred (911-8)
Ælfwynn, daughter of Æthelred and Æthelflæd, deprived of authority and taken into Wessex 918

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Rulers: Northumbria

*Soemel, legendary founder of Deira, great-great-great-grandfather of Ælle
Ælle, king of Deira, ruling in 597, perhaps 30-year reign?
Æthelric, king of Deira for five years after Ælle [then Æthelfrith of Bernicia took over]
*Oessa, legendary first settler of Bernicia, grandfather of Ida
Ida, king of Bernicia (547-59)
Glappa, king of Bernicia (559-60)
Adda, king of Bernicia (560-8)
Æthelric, king of Bernicia (568-72)
Theodric, king of Bernicia (572-9)
Frithuwald, king of Bernicia (579-85)
Hussa, king of Bernicia (585-92)
Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia (592-616), also conquered Deira
Edwin, king of Deira (616 - 12 October 633 [Battle of Hatfield]), also conquered Bernicia [conversion sparrow-speech]
Osric, king of Deira (633-4 [killed by Cadwallon])
Eanfrith, king of Bernicia (633-4 [killed by Cadwallon])
Oswald, king of Bernicia (634 - 5 August 642 [Battle of Maserfelth]), also took Deira
Oswine, king of Deira (642 - 20 August 651 [killed on Oswiu's orders])
Oswiu, king of Bernicia (642 - 15 February 670), took Deira in 651
Oethelwald, perhaps subking of Deira under Oswiu
Alhfrith, perhaps subking of Deira under Oswiu
Ecgfrith, perhaps subking of Deira under Oswiu
Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria (670 - 20 May 685 [Battle of Nechtansmere])
Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (686 - 14 December 705)
Eadwulf, king of Northumbria for 2 months in 705-6?
Osred I, king of Northumbria (706-16)
Coenred, king of Northumbria (716-8)
Osric, king of Northumbria (718 - 9 May 729)
Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria (729 - 737 [retired to Lindisfarne]), dedicatee of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Eadberht, king of Northumbria (737 - 758 [resigned, became a monk])
Oswulf, king of Northumbria (758 - 24/25 July 759 [treacherously killed by his men])
Æthelwald Moll, king of Northumbria (5 August 759 - 30 October 765 [driven out])
Alhred, king of Northumbria (765 - 774 [exiled])
Æthelred I, king of Northumbria (774 - 778/9 [exiled], 790 - 18 April 796)
Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria (778/9 - 23 September 788 [killed by treacherous Sicga])
Osred II, king of Northumbria (788 - 790 [expelled, tonsured, and exiled])
Osbald, king of Northumbria (796, for 27 days [expelled, fled to Picts])
Eardwulf, king of Northumbria (26 May 796 - ?806 [expelled], 808-10 [restored with help from Charlemagne?])
Ælfwald II, king of Northumbria (?? 806-8)
Eanred, king of Northumbria (?? 810-40)
Æthelred II, king of Northumbria (?? 840-4, 844-8;or ?? 846-50, 850-4)
Rædwald, king of Northumbria (?? 844, or ?? 850)
Osberht, king of Northumbria after Æthelred to 23 March 867 [killed by Vikings at York]
Ælle, usurper king of Northumbria in Osberht's reign to 23 March 867 [killed by Vikings at York]
Erik Bloodaxe, last king of York (?947-8, ?952-4)

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Rulers: Wessex

*Cerdic, legendary founder of Wessex
*Cynric, legendary founder of Wessex
Ceawlin, early ruler of Wessex (?? 581-8 or ?? 560-93)
Ceol, early ruler of Wessex (?? 588-94 or ?? 591-7)
Ceolwulf, early ruler of Wessex (?? 594/7 - 611)
Cynegils, king of Wesseex (611-42) [baptized 635]
Cenwealh, king of Wessex (642-5, 648-72 [gap: in exile from Penda of Mercia])
Seaxburh, Cenwealh's widow and ruler of Wessex (672-4)
Æscwine, king of Wessex (674-6)
Centwine, king of Wessex (676 - ?685)
Cædwalla, king of Wessex (685-88 [resigned, went to Rome]) (died 20 April 689)
Ine, king of Wessex (688-726 [resigned, went to Rome])
Æthelheard, king of Wessex (726-40)
Cuthred, king of Wessex (740-56)
Sigeberht, king of Wessex (756-7)
Cynewulf, king of Wessex (757 - 786 [ambushed by Cyneheard, Sigeberht's brother])
Beorhtric, king of Wessex (786 - 802 [?? accidentally poisoned by his wife])
Ecgberht, king of Wessex (802-39)
Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (839-55 [to Rome], 856-8)
Æthelbald, king of Wessex (855-8 [subking], 858-60) ([858, marries stepmother Judith)
Æthelberht, king of Wessex (855-60 [subking], 860-5)
Æthelred, king of Wessex (865-71)

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Rulers: Anglo-Saxons

Alfred (the Great), king of Wessex and later the Anglo-Saxons (871 - 26 October 899)
Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons (899 [cons. 8 June 900] - 17 July 924)

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Rulers: England

Æthelstan, king of England (924 [cons. 4 September 925] - 27 October 939
Edmund, king of England (939 - 26 May 946 [stabbed at Pucklechurch])
Eadred, king of England (946 [cons. 16 August 946] - 23 November 955)
Eadwig All-Fair, king of England (955 [cons. 26 January 956] - 1 October 959) (kingdom divided with Edgar, 957)
Edgar the Peacemaker, king of England (957/9 - 8 July 975)
Edward the Martyr, king of England (975 - 18 March 978 [killed at Corfe by supporters of Æthelred])
Æthelred the Unready, king of England (978 [cons. 4 May 979] - 23 April 1016 [1013-4 exile in Normandy])
Edmund Ironside, Æthelred's son, disputed kingship of England with Cnut (April 1016 - 30 November 1016)
Cnut, king of England (1016 - 12 November 1035)
Harold Harefoot, king of England (1035-7 [jointly with Harthacnut], 1037-40)
Harthacnut, king of England (1035-7 [jointly with Harold], 1040-1, 1041-2 [jointly with Edward the Confessor])
Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042 - 5 January 1066)
Harold Godwinesson, king of England (1066 [cons. 6. January 1066] - 14 October 1066 [Battle of Hastings])

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Archbishops: Canterbury

Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (597 - 26 May 604x609)
Laurence, archbishop of Canterbury (604x609 - 2 February 619)
Mellitus, archbishop of Canterbury (619 [from London] - 24 April 624)
Justus, archbishop of Canterbury (624 [from Rochester] -10 November 627x631)
Honorius, archbishop of Canterbury (627x631 - 30 September 653)
Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury (12/26 March 655-14 July 664)
Wigheard, archbishop-elect of Canterbury (666/7-8 [died in Rome])
Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (cons. 26 March 668 [arrived 669] - 19 September 690)
Berhtwald, archbishop of Canterbury (1 July 692 [cons. 29 June 693] - 13 January 731)
Tatwine, archbishop of Canterbury (10 June 731 - 30 July 734)
Nothhelm, archbishop of Canterbury (735 - 17 October 739)
Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury (740 [? from Hereford] - 26 October 760)
Bregowine, archbishop of Canterbury (27 September 761 - 764)
Jænberht, archbishop of Canterbury (2 February 765 - 12 August 792)
Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury (792 [cons. 21 July 793] - 12 May 805)
Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury ([by 26 July 805] [cons. October 805] - 24 March 832)
Feologild, archbishop of Canterbury (25 April 832 [cons. 9 June 832] - 30 August 832), rival to Swithred?
Swithred, archbishop of Canterbury (832), rival to Feologild?
Ceolnoth, archbishop of Canterbury (833 [cons. ? 27 July 833] - 4 February 870))
Æthelred, archbishop of Canterbury (870 - 30 June 888)
Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (890 - 2 August 923)
Æthelhelm, archbishop of Canterbury (923x925 [from Wells] - 8 January 926)
Wulfhelm, archbishop of Canterbury (c.926 [from Wells] - 12 February 941)
Oda, archbishop of Canterbury (941 [from Ramsbury] - 2 June 958)
Ælfsige, archbishop of Canterbury (958 [from Winchester] - 959)
Byrhthelm, archbishop of Canterbury (959 [from Wells] - 959 [deposed for Dunstan; back to Wells])
Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (959 - 19 May 988)
Æthelgar, archbishop of Canterbury (988 [from New Minster Winchester & Selsey] - 12/13 February 990)
Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury (990 [from Ramsbury] - 28 October 994)
Ælfric, archbishop of Canterbury (21 April 995 [from Ramsbury] - 16 November 1005)
Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury (21 April 995 [from Ramsbury] - 16 November 1005)
Lyfing, also called Ælfstan, archbishop of Canterbury (1013 [from Wells] - 12 June 1020)
Æthelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury ([cons. 13 November 1020] - [28/29 October/1 November 1038])
Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury (1038 - 29 October 1050)
Robert of Jumièges, archbishop of Canterbury (March 1051 [from London] - September 1052 [expelled])
Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury (1052 [from Winchester] - 11 April 1070 [deposed])

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Abbots: New Minster, Winchester

Æthelgar, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (964 - 988 [becomes archbishop of Canterbury])
Ælfsige, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (988 - 25 August 1007)
Byrhtwold, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (1007 - 17 March 1012)
Byrhtmær, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (1012 - 25 December 1030)
Ælfwine, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (1031 - 24 November 1057)
Ælfnoth, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (1057 - 9 December ?1063)
Ælfwig, abbot of the New Minster, Winchester (?1063 - ?14 October 1066)

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