List of Kings of Wessex (The Once and Never Kings)



Though Kings had ruled Wessex since the sixth century, the official list is dated from the rule of King Egbert, the first West Saxon ruler to bear the title of "Bretwalda" ("Ruler of Britian").

The kings of Wessex used to rule all of England as "Kings of the Anglo-Saxons" since the reign of Alfred the Great, until that of Edmund II. Following the peace at the end of the War of Wessexian Succession, the division of England into Saxon Wessex and Danish Jórvík. Aside from the rule of Richard III, the two would never be reunited.