 Abt 493 - 534 (41 years) Submit Photo / Document
Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
-
| Name |
Cerdic Wessex |
| Suffix |
King of Wessex |
| Birth |
Abt 493 |
England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
L8WY-W7H |
| Death |
534 |
| Person ID |
I14807 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
-
| Event Map |
|
 | Birth - Abt 493 - England |
 |
|
-
| Notes |
- Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, chart716.
Crioda may also be a brother Cynric, King of West Saxon, he isnotliste d o n s om e pedigree charts of this line .
Cynrin is listed as a son of Cerdic, King of Wessex and West Saxon, oth e r list them as the same person.
Cerdic, (died 534), founder of the West Saxon kingdom, or Wessex. All t h e sovereigns of England except Canute, Hardecanute, the two Harolds, a n d William the Conqueror are said to be descended from him. A Continent a l ealdorman who in 495 landed in Hampshire, Cerdic was attacked at onc e b y the Britons. Nothing more is heard of him until 508, when he defeat ed t he Britons with great slaughter. Strengthened by fresh arrivals of S axons , he gained another victory in 519 at Certicesford, a spot which ha s bee n identified with the modern Charford, and in this year took the ti tle o f king. Turning westward, Cerdic appears to have been defeated by t he Bri tons in 520 at Badbury or Mount Badon, in Dorset, and in 527 yet a nothe r fight with the Britons is recorded. His last work was the conques t of t he Isle of Wight, probably in the interest of some Jutish allies.
-------------------------
The first of the Saxons to come across the sea from Germany. He landed w i th his son and 5 ships in 495, fighting a battle on the same day .
Cerdic (tʃɛrdɪtʃ) is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of t h e Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first kin g o f Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534. Subsequent kings of Wesse x al l had some level of descent claimed in the Chronicle from Cerdic. (S ee Ho use of Wessex family tree)
Life
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Cerdic landed in Hampshire in 4 9 5 with his son Cynric in five ships. He is said to have fought a Britto ni c king named Natanleod at Natanleaga and killed him thirteen years lat e r (in 508), and to have fought at Cerdicesleag in 519. Natanleaga is co mm only identified as Netley Marsh in Hampshire and Cerdicesleag as Charf or d (Cerdic's Ford). The conquest of the Isle of Wight is also mentione d am ong his campaigns, and it was later given to his kinsmen, Stuf and W ihtga r (who had supposedly arrived with the West Saxons in 514). Cerdi c is sai d to have died in 534 and was succeeded by his son Cynric.
The early history of Wessex in the Chronicle has been considered unrelia b le, with duplicate reports of events and seemingly contradictory inform at ion. David Dumville has suggested that Cerdic's true regnal dates ar e 538 –554. Some scholars suggest that Cerdic was the Saxon leader defeat ed b y the Britons at the Battle of Mount Badon, which was probably fough t i n 490 (and possibly later, but not later than 518). This cannot be th e ca se if Dumville is correct, and others assign this battle to Ælle o r anoth er Saxon leader, so it appears likely that the origins of the kin gdom o f Wessex are more complex than the version provided by the survivi ng trad itions.
Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that Cerdic is purely a leg e ndary figure, and had no actual existence, but this is a minority view . H owever, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, wa s pu t together in the late ninth century; though it probably does recor d th e extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four h undre d years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.
Descent from Cerdic became a necessary criterion for later kings of Wess e x, and Egbert of Wessex, progenitor of the English royal house and subs eq uent rulers of England and Britain, claimed him as an ancestor.
His name is British, though there is no evidence to explain why.
|
|
|
Submit Photo / Document
Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
English
