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Cerdic is commonly regarded as the first king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex. He is said to have reigned from around 519 to 534. His importance lies in the fact that subsequent Anglo-Saxon Kings of England revered him as their great ancestor. Cerdic was the son of Elessa and Isaive. Some sources imply that Cerdic was illegitimate ...
Dec 15, 2023 · Cerdic of wessex. Cerdic ( [/tʃɛrdɪtʃ/]) is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534. Subsequent kings of Wessex all had some level of descent claimed in the Chronicle from Cerdic. (See House of Wessex family tree)
Wessex. Father. Ealhmund, King of Kent. Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was King Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s, Ecgberht was forced into exile to Charlemagne 's court in the Frankish Empire by the kings Offa of Mercia and ...
Father. Cerdic or Creoda. Cynric ( / ˈkɪnˌrɪtʃ /) was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex. [2] However, the Anglian King-list and parts of the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal ...
King Cerdic of Wessex (more accurately, of the Gewissae) is perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the whole of British history. He appears as a chieftain with an Anglian pedigree but an indubitably Welsh name, having Jutish kinsfolk, with whose aid he establishes a Saxon kingdom, which nevertheless seems to remain archaeologically British (i.e. non-Teutonic) for a half-century or more after the ...
House. Wessex. Father. Cynric of Wessex. Ceawlin ( [ˈtʃæɑw.lin] CHOW-lin; [1] also spelled Ceaulin, Caelin, Celin, died ca. 593) was a King of Wessex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leader of the first group of Saxons to come to the land ...
