Beornwulf attacks the West Saxons but King …
Years: 825 - 825
Beornwulf attacks the West Saxons but King Egbert of Wessex in September 825 defeats and slays him at Ellandun, identified with Wroughton in Wrightshire, to become the eighth Bretwalda (overlord) and the first Anglo-Saxon king to be styled "ruler over all England."
