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Anglo-Saxon Kings

The foremost of the kings of Anglo-Saxon England was known as the Bretwalda until Alfred the Great.

The separate kingdoms which made up Anglo-Saxon England were:

The Heptarchy:

Kent
Northumbria
Wessex
Essex
Sussex
Mercia
East Anglia

Subkingdoms of Northumbria:

Bernicia
Deira

Others:

Isle of Wight[?]
Surrey[?]
Kingdom of the Iclingas[?]
Lindsey
Hwicce
Dalriada / Strathclyde
Whitghar[?]

[..to be continued.. sjc ]

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