The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Bernwulf

Family: Mercians · Role: king · First appears: A.D. 796–835

Life events

  • 823 · Egbert defeated Bernwulf in battle, with great slaughter on both sides.(A.D. 796–835 · 📍 Wilton)
    • With: Egbert
    • “Egbert, king of the West-Saxons, and Bernwulf, King of Mercia, fought a battle at Wilton, in which Egbert gained the victory, but there was great slaughter on both sides.”
  • 823 · Bernwulf was slain by the king of the East-Angles and his subjects.(A.D. 796–835)
    • “whose king, Bernwulf, they slew in the course of the same year.”

A.D. 796–835

  • enemies with Egbert “Egbert, king of the West-Saxons, and Bernwulf, King of Mercia, fought a battle at Wilton, in which Egbert gained the victory, but there was great slaughter on both sides.”

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