Polity Kingdom of Kent (Wessex)

This article is about the specific polity Kingdom of Kent (Wessex) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England, one of the polities founded by the Saxons in Post-Roman Britain. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century CE. After intermittent periods of domains by Mercia and Wessex, it was finally absorbed by the latter.

Establishment

  • January 826: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Wessex.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Ecgberth of Wessex

Were the conquests by king Ecgberth of Wessex in England.

  • January 826: The Kingdom of Kent becomes a vassal of Wessex.

Disestablishment

  • January 872: The Kingdom of Kent (Wessex) was fully absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex in the late 9th century.