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Anglo-Saxon monarchs

The foremost of the kings of Anglo-Saxon England was Ælle of Sussex in 477, who was much later followed by Alfred the Great (who took the place of Ethelred) in 871. The last king of the Anglo-Saxon period was Harold II, who died in the Battle of Hastings. Many of these monarchs used the name Bretwalda.

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Anglo-Saxon kings

Wessex kings

Sussex kings

East Anglia kings

Essex kings

Kent kings

Mercia kings

Northumbria and Northumbria subkingdoms kings

Anglo-Saxon England heptarchy

The separate kingdoms which made up Anglo-Saxon England were:

Subkingdoms of Northumbria

Other minor kingdoms

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