Name	SR	ER	Notes	PASE name

Alfred the Great	871	899	King of the Anglo-Saxo; received the submission of Æthelred of the Mercians, c.880	Alfred 8

Ælfweard	924	924	Recognized as king in Wessex but died soon after	Ælfweard 4

Æscwine	674	676		Æscwine 2

Æthelbald	855	860	Given control of the Western kingdom on Æthelwulf’s departure for Rome in 855; forcibly retains it until his death	Æthelbald 13

Æthelberht	855	856	Given control of the Eastern kingdom on Æthelwulf’s departure for Rome in 855	Æthelberht 9

Æthelheard	726	?740		Æthelheard 6

Æthelred	865	871		Æthelred 15

Æthelred II the Unready	978	1013	Forced into exile in 1013, returned 1014	Æthelred 32

Æthelred II the Unready	1014	1016		Æthelred 32

Æthelstan	924	939	King of the Anglo-Saxons and of the Danes; recognized as king in Mercia, succeeded to the whole kingdom on Ælfweard’s death	Æthelstan 18

Æthelwulf	839	858	In 855 he went to Rome, splitting the kingdom between his two sons, Æthelbald and Æthelberht. On his return Æthelberht returned the Eastern kingdom, Æthelbald retained the Western	Æthelwulf 1

Æthelwulf (again)	856	858	King of the Eastern kingdom	Æthelwulf 1

Beorhtric	786	802		Beorhtric 1

Cædwalla	685	688	Removed the subkings, conquered Wight and retired to Rome; d.689	Cædwalla 1

Ceawlin	560	593		Ceawlin 2

Centwine	676	?685		Centwine 1

Cenwealh	642	645-8	Driven out be Penda; d.672	Cenwealh 2

Ceol	591	?597		Ceol 1

Ceolwulf	597	?611		Ceolwulf 2

Cerdic	519	534	Legendary founder of Wessex	Cerdic 1

Cnut	1016	1035		Cnut 3

Cuthred	740	756		Cuthred 6

Cynegils	611	?642		Cynegils 1

Cynewulf	757	765	Killed by Cyneheard, Sigeberht’s brother	Cynewulf 4

Cynric	534	560	Son of Cerdic

Eadred	946	955	Lost Northumbria in 947, recovered it in 948, lost it again c.950, again recovered in 954	Eadred 16

Eadwig	955	959	In 957 the kingdom of the English split: Eadwig ruled south of the Thames, Edgar, north.	Eadwig 4

Ecgberht	802	839	Added Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Essex to his dominions in 825; conquered and ruled Mercia for a year, 829; called Bretwalda by the ASC	Ecgberht 10

Edgar the Peacable	959	975	King of the Mercians and Northumbrians, 959-75; king of the English from 959	Edgar 11

Edmund	939	946	After Æthelstan’s death, the Northumbrians chose Olaf Guthfrithsson as king. In 939-40 Olaf extended his rule to Watling St. In 942 Edmund regained the Five Boroughs, in 944 he gained Northumbria.	Edmund 14

Edmund Ironside	1016	1016	Defeated by Cnut at Ashingdon, 18 Oct.	Edmund 24

Edward the Confessor	1042	1066	In exile in Normandy until 1042	Edward 15

Edward the Elder	899	924	Extended direct rule to London and Oxford, 911, and to Mercia, 918; between 912 and 918 he conquered the Danelaw	Edward 2

Edward the Martyr	975	978	Murdered by his brother’s supporters	Edward 12

Five Kings	Fl.626		According to ASC MS E, Edwin of Northumbria ravaged Wessex and killed there five kings	Anonymi 1307

Harold Harefoot	1035	1040	King in the North, 1035-37; ‘king everywhere’ thereafter	Harold 5

Harold II	1066	1066	Killed at Hastings, 14 Oct.	Harold 3

Harthacnut	1035	1037	Chosen as king in the south in absentia but deserted by his supporters, 1037	Harthacnut 1

Harthacnut (again)	1040	1042		Cnut 3

Ine	688	726	Retired to Rome	Ine 1

Seaxburg	671	?674	Queen	Tota 2

Sigeberht	756	757	Deprived of his kingdom by Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons	Sigeberht 4

Sub-kings			Bede says that after Cenwealh’s departure subreguli ‘ took upon themselves the government of the kingdom, dividing it up and ruling for about 10 years’

Swein Forkbeard	1013	1014	King of the Danes from 987	Swein 1

William the Conqueror				William 1