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Is England first king a roman?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

No. Depending on whether you count Egbert of Wessex (who was overlord of all the English kingdoms about AD 830) as a king of England, and on whether you consider England to have been united when Edward the Elder inherited the kingdom of Mercia (about 920) or not until Athelstan conquered Nothumbria (927), the first king of England was either Egbert or his great-grandson Edward the Elder, or Edward's son Athelstan. They were all Saxons, not Romans.

If you are being very picky, then the Edward the Elder's title was not "King of England" but "King of the Angles and Saxons", and Athelstan's was "King of the English". The title "King of England" as opposed to "King of the English" was first used by Henry II, in 1154. Henry was a Frenchman (from Angers), not a Roman either.

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