Cnut the great, who conquered england in 1016, created the wealthy and powerful earldom of wessex, but in 1066 harold godwinson reunited the earldom with the crown and wessex ceased to exist. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of hampshire, dorset, wiltshire, and somerset Learn more about wessex, including its kings. Where is wessex located now The kingdom of wessex (c * hampshire (where the capital of wessex, winchester, is located) * wiltshire * dorset.
Wessex eventually became the most powerful of the kingdoms of the english, its later kings recognised overlords by all the kings of britain, the english and the britons, and it was they who united england into one kingdom.
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