NEW STEP BY STEP MAP FOR EGGBET

Small is known of the first twenty years of Ecgberht's reign, nonetheless it is thought that he was in a position to keep up the independence of Wessex against the kingdom of Mercia, which At the moment dominated one other southern English kingdoms. In 825, Ecgberht defeated Beornwulf of Mercia, finished Mercia's supremacy in the Struggle of Elland