Æthelheard (meaning roughly 'Noble Stern'), also spelled Ethelheard or Æþelheard, is King of Wessex from 726 to 740.
There is an unreliable record of Æthelheard having been the brother-in-law of his predecessor, Ine, but his ancestry is unknown, perhaps making him the first King of Wessex not to be descended from Cynric by blood.
