What is List of monarchs of Wessex?
[[File:Egbert of Wessex map.jpg|thumb|right|350px|{{center|Map of England {{circa|802–839}}}}]] This is a '''list of [[:wikt:monarchs|monarchs]] of [[Wessex]]''' until 927. For later monarchs, see the [[List of English monarchs]]. Details for many of the later English monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources. But the earliest [[king]]s of Wessex predate many written sources.<ref>Barbara Yorke, ''Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England'' (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 1</ref> [[Wessex]] was one of the seven kingdoms of the British [[Heptarchy]]. This is a later name given to the seven [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] kingdoms of [[England]] during the [[early Middle Ages]].<ref>Michael Frassetto, ''The Early Medieval World'' (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), p. 308</ref> Besides Wessex it included [[Northumbria]], [[Mercia]], [[East Anglia]], [[Essex]], [[Kent]], and [[Sussex]]. The year 865 saw the arrival of the [[w:Great Heathen Army|Great Heathen Army]] in East Anglia.<ref name=Kirby173>D. P. Kirby, ''The Earliest English Kings'', Second Edition (London; New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 173</ref> One by one the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were defeated by the Danes ([[Vikings]]). By the close of the [[9th century|ninth century]] the last four independent kingdoms of England had been reduced to just one.<ref name=Brooks1>N. P. Brooks, 'England in the Ninth Century: The Crucible of Defeat', ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'', Fifth Series, Vol. 29, (1979), p. 1</ref> Wessex was the only remaining kingdom not destroyed by the Vikings.<ref name=Brooks1/> Under [[Alfred the Great]] Wessex became the core of a unified England.<ref>Michael Frassetto, ''The Early Medieval World'' (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), p. 54</ref> His grandson, [[Athelstan]] was the first King of England.<ref>Frank Stenton, ''Anglo-Saxon England'' (Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 339-40</ref> == Monarchs of the West Saxons (Wessex) == === Cerdicing Dynasty === * [[Cerdic of Wessex|Cerdic]] (519–534) *Creoda (53