Significant people

• Louis the Pious
  Louis the Pious
  Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813...
  
  
• Egbert of Wessex
  Egbert of Wessex
  Egbert was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent...
  
  
• Ansgar
  Ansgar
  Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. The see of Hamburg was designated a "Mission to bring Christianity to the North", and Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North".-Life:After his mother’s early death Ansgar was brought up in Corbie Abbey, and made rapid...
  
  
• Wiglaf of Mercia
  Wiglaf of Mercia
  Wiglaf was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death. His ancestry is uncertain: the 820s were a period of dynastic conflict within Mercia and the genealogy of several of the kings of this time is unknown...
  
  
• Turgesius
  Turgesius
  Turgesius was a Viking chief active in Ireland who is said to have conquered Dublin. It is not at all clear whether the names in the Irish annals represent the Old Norse Thurgestr or Thorgísl...