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Eaba, 732

Name
/Eaba/
Surname
Eaba
Birth
Birth of a son
Death of a son
Unique identifier
4E71256ABDF7CB4ABEBE9650B956DA2688DE
Last change
23 January 200719:13:56
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Notes
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (1:11). Did not rule.
jparsons@chass.utoronto.ca (John Carmi Parsons) posted toGEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com on 30 Dec 1998
Subject: Re: Egbert of England:
. "It should be borne in mind that the earlier generations of the Wessexgenealogy, as we possess it today, bear many hallmarks of what are knownas foundation myths and may very well be inventions, long after the fact,to glorify retro- actively the history of the dynasty that eventuallyunified England. In particular, there are many discrepancies between theaccount of the foundation of Wessex given by Bede and that in theAnglo-Saxon Chronicle. The unreliability of many of the dates in theearlier generations of the pedigree is now taken for granted, and thereis no way to reconcile the Chronicle's strong implication that Cerdic'speople first settled in S. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with Bede'sstatement centuries earlier that Hampshire and Wight were not broughtunder the dominion of the kings of Wessex until much later. We also have2 distinct versions of the pedigree, one making Cynric the son of Cerdicand the other making him Cerdic's grandson (son of Cerdic's son Creoda).Finally, some name elements in the first generations of the Wessexpedigree, esp. Cynric itself, appear more British (!) than Saxon.
. For an excellent, concise and highly readable summary of problemssurrounding all the early Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, see BarbaraYorke's Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (Hardback:Seaby, 1990, rpt 1992; ppb Routledge, 1997 ISBN 0-415-16639-X)."