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| − | This year died King Egbert. Him Offa, King of Mercia, and Bertric, the West-Sason king, drove out of England into France three before he was king. Bertric assisted Offa because he had married his daughter. Egbert having afterwards returned, reigned thirty-seven winters and seven months. Then Ethelwulf, the son of Egbert, succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom; and he gave his son Athelstan the kingdom of Kent, and of Essex, and of Surrey, and of Sussex.<p> | + | This year died King Egbert. Him Offa, King of Mercia, and Bertric, the West-Sason king, drove out of England into France three years before he was king. Bertric assisted Offa because he had married his daughter. Egbert having afterwards returned, reigned thirty-seven winters and seven months. Then Ethelwulf, the son of Egbert, succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom; and he gave his son Athelstan the kingdom of [[Kent]], and of Essex, and of Surrey, and of Sussex.<p> |
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This year died King Egbert. Him Offa, King of Mercia, and Bertric, the West-Sason king, drove out of England into France three years before he was king. Bertric assisted Offa because he had married his daughter. Egbert having afterwards returned, reigned thirty-seven winters and seven months. Then Ethelwulf, the son of Egbert, succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom; and he gave his son Athelstan the kingdom of Kent, and of Essex, and of Surrey, and of Sussex.
(Ingram, p.60)
