Egbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England mb-code 00816379 Mick Jagger sings on stage

Mick Jagger sings on stage at a free Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park

Oval head and shoulders portrait of Hughes de Lyonne wearing a sash ribbon and cross

Albert Quixall

shown perched on a low tree branch

Egbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England mb-code 00816379 Mick Jagger sings on stageEgbert, King of the West Saxons and first monarch of all England, (18th century). Egbert (c770 839) ruled Wessex from 802. His reign saw Wessex overtake Mercia as the dominant Anglo Saxon kingdom and as a consequence he is regarded as the first King of England although the title was not used until the reign of his grandson, Alfred the Great.