State · 527 – 825
Kingdom of Essex
A state of 527 – 825 — 298 years in Europe. The atlas records 13 things within it — people 13. Its line of rulers holds 19 people, 1 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 298 years
- 527 – 825
- Rulers
- 19
- the King of Essex
- Most ground
- 4,200 km²
- in 628
- Within it
- 13
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of King of Essex.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecgberht | 825 – 839 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
19 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 825 – 839. Only 14 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
4,100 km² in 537, 4,200 km² in 657; at its largest 4,200 km² in 637. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
500 – 5991 row
- Sledd of Essex · ruler · 501 – 604
600 – 6996 rows
- Swithhelm of Essex · ruler · 600 – 664
- Sigeberht the Good · ruler · 601 – 660
- Sighere of Essex · ruler · 600 – 689
- Sigeberht the Little · ruler · 600 – 653
- Sæbbi of Essex · ruler · 601 – 694
- Saelred of Essex · ruler · 601 – 746
700 – 7996 rows
- Ecgberht · ruler · 771 – 839
- Sigeric I of Essex · ruler · 701 – 798
- Sigered of Essex · ruler · 701 – 823
- Swæfberht of Essex · ruler · 700 – 738
- Offa of Essex · ruler · 700 – 709
- Swithred of Essex · ruler · 701 – 758
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood298 years
stood longer than 73% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held4,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 8% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record19
has more rulers on record than 91% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 497 – 855, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 628, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q110888 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.