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Cerdic King Of Wessex, 465–534 (aged 69 years)

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Cerdic King Of Wessex

Name: Cerdic King Of /Wessex/
Surname: Wessex
Given names: Cerdic King Of

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father	Links Birth: 439 28 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany Unique identifier: 4F584E2BE96B5A45918AF7A759BD775EB743 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Cerdic King Of Wessex … Elesa 439–… Birth: 439 28 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany
himself	Links Birth: before 465 26 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany Death: 534 — Wessex, Eng. Unique identifier: E7A536DE314D2C4FBDCF1E8D1F8EEDF6606B Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Crioda Prince Of Wessex Cerdic King Of Wessex 465–534 Birth: before 465 26 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany Death: 534 — Wessex, Eng.

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himself	Links Birth: before 465 26 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany Death: 534 — Wessex, Eng. Unique identifier: E7A536DE314D2C4FBDCF1E8D1F8EEDF6606B Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Crioda Prince Of Wessex Cerdic King Of Wessex 465–534 Birth: before 465 26 — Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany Death: 534 — Wessex, Eng.
son	Links Birth: before 480 15 — Wessex, Eng. Unique identifier: C888F71D03462F42BFBC9878D60D758D8EBB Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Cynric King Of Wessex Crioda Prince Of Wessex 480–… Birth: before 480 15 — Wessex, Eng.

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Birth	before 465 26 Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany
Birth of a son	Crioda Prince Of Wessex before 480 Wessex, Eng.
Death	534 (aged 69 years) Wessex, Eng.
Unique identifier	51531799182AEC4284F9D0F3FB96EBC0403E
Last change	23 January 2007 – 19:13:56

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Note	Notes Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (1:1). "Founder of the West Saxon Kingdom in England. Reigned 519-34. Arrived inEngland from the Saxon lands on the continent in 495. "This year came twoleaders into Britain, Cerdic and Cynric, his son, with five ships, at aplace that is called Cerdics' Ore and they fought with the Welsh the same day." Thus briefly does the old Saxon Chronicle record one of the mostimportant events in the history of the English nation. Twenty four yearslater, after defeating Arthur and obliging him to yield Hants andSomerset, Cerdic caused himself to be crowned king of Wessex, atWinchester. This invasion of Britain established on the throne of Wessexa ruler who was destined to be the forefather of nearly all thesovereigns of England." Dumville's revised dating of the early Wessex kings, as given in Yorke's"Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England", places his reign anddeath twenty years later than previously thought. Leo van de Pas contributed to GEN-MEDIEVAL on 29 Dec 1998: . "Cerdic (King of the West Saxons 519-534), was a Saxon earldorman,together with his son Cynric came to England in 495 and founded asettlement on the coast of Hampshire. In 519 father and son fought withthe Britons at a place called Charford and from the same year onwardsCerdic assumed the title of King of the West Saxons. They probablyconquered the Isle of Wight in 534, the year that Cerdic died." The pre-Cerdic generations in the official West Saxon genealogy wereshown to be a fabrication in K. Sisam, "Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies", Proceedings of the British Academy 39 (1953), 287-348.

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Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (1:1).
"Founder of the West Saxon Kingdom in England. Reigned 519-34. Arrived inEngland from the Saxon lands on the continent in 495. "This year came twoleaders into Britain, Cerdic and Cynric, his son, with five ships, at aplace that is called Cerdics' Ore and they fought with the Welsh the same
day." Thus briefly does the old Saxon Chronicle record one of the mostimportant events in the history of the English nation. Twenty four yearslater, after defeating Arthur and obliging him to yield Hants andSomerset, Cerdic caused himself to be crowned king of Wessex, atWinchester. This invasion of Britain established on the throne of Wessexa ruler who was destined to be the forefather of nearly all thesovereigns of England."
Dumville's revised dating of the early Wessex kings, as given in Yorke's"Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England", places his reign anddeath twenty years later than previously thought.
Leo van de Pas contributed to GEN-MEDIEVAL on 29 Dec 1998:
. "Cerdic (King of the West Saxons 519-534), was a Saxon earldorman,together with his son Cynric came to England in 495 and founded asettlement on the coast of Hampshire. In 519 father and son fought withthe Britons at a place called Charford and from the same year onwardsCerdic assumed the title of King of the West Saxons. They probablyconquered the Isle of Wight in 534, the year that Cerdic died."

The pre-Cerdic generations in the official West Saxon genealogy wereshown to be a fabrication in K. Sisam, "Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies",
Proceedings of the British Academy 39 (1953), 287-348.