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Bretwalda noun.
[Old English Bretwalda, varying with Brytenwalda, from Brettas (see BRIT noun1 & adjective1), Bryten (see BRITAIN noun1) + Germanic base of WIELD verb.]
Hist. Lord of the Britons, lord of Britain: a title given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to King Egbert, and (retrospectively) to some earlier Anglo-Saxon kings, and occas. assumed by later ones.