Sigeberht of Wessex

Sigeberht (meaning roughly "Magnificent Victory") was the King of Wessex from 754 or 755, to around 756.

Sigeberht succeeded his distant relative

Cyneheard was also driven out, but returned in 786 to kill Sigeberht's successor Cynewulf.^[3]

References

^ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. & ed. Michael James Swanton (New York: Routledge, 1998), p. 46
^ Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 311
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Sigebert (d.756?)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Cuthred	King of Wessex 756–757	Succeeded by Cynewulf

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