bretwalda

• But all these magistrates were in possession of the supreme power, were kings in everything save the name; and the interesting suggestion presents itself that in the case of Venice the master of the soldiers had been part of the tribunitial organization, if not of the consular one, and that one of the tribunes officiated by rotation, bearing to the republic the same sort of relationship as the bretwalda bore to the other Anglo-Saxon reguli_. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
• Dr. Stubbs, Egbert became _bretwalda_ in 828. —  The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
• Ethelbert, king of Kent is the first account of any Christian bretwalda conversion and is told by the Venerable Bede in his histories of the conversion of England. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• _bretwalda_ bore to the other Anglo-Saxon _reguli_. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
• The bretwalda had no power in the civil affairs of the under-kings, but in times of war or danger formed an important centre. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

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