Ceawlin Wessex, King of Wessex

Abt 535 - 593  (58 years)   Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Ceawlin Wessex
  Suffix	King of Wessex
  Birth	Abt 535	England
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	9HVH-9DT
  Death	593
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  Person ID	I14795	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Cynric Wessex, King of Wessex,   b. Abt 495, England d. 560 (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F7319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	+ 1. Cuthwine Wessex,   b. Abt 565, England d. 592 (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F7532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2025

  
  

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• Notes

  King of West Saxon 560 - 577. Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, chart 716. Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert Fr e derick Pfafman, p E-34. Ceawlin (also spelled Ceaulin and Caelin, died ca. 593) was a King of We s sex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of C er dic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leade r o f the first group of Saxons to come to the land which later became We ssex . Ceawlin was active during the last years of the Anglo-Saxon expans ion , with little of southern England remaining in the control of the nat iv e Britons by the time of his death. The chronology of Ceawlin's life is highly uncertain. The historical acc u racy and dating of many of the events in the later Anglo-Saxon Chronic l e have been called into question, and his reign is variously listed a s la sting seven, seventeen, or thirty-two years.[1] The Chronicle record s sev eral battles of Ceawlin's between the years 556 and 592, includin g the fi rst record of a battle between different groups of Anglo-Saxons , and indi cates that under Ceawlin Wessex acquired significant territory , some of w hich was later to be lost to other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Ceaw lin is als o named as one of the eight "bretwaldas", a title given in th e Chronicl e to eight rulers who had overlordship over southern Britain , although th e extent of Ceawlin's control is not known. Ceawlin died in 593, having been deposed the year before, possibly by h i s successor, Ceol. He is recorded in various sources as having two son s , Cutha and Cuthwine, but the genealogies in which this information i s fo und are known to be unreliable. The annal for the year 592 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads: "Here the r e was a great slaughter at Woden's Barrow, and Ceawlin was driven out."