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A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [ 1 ] and Asser 's Life of King ...
The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, the House of the West Saxons, the House of the Gewisse, the Cerdicings and the West Saxon dynasty, refers to the family, traditionally founded by Cerdic of the Gewisse, that ruled Wessex in Southern England from the early 6th century.
The genealogies trace the succession of the early Anglo-Saxon kings, back to the semi-legendary kings of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, notably named as Hengist and Horsa in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and further to legendary kings and heroes of the pre-migration period, usually including an eponymous ancestor of the ...
A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [ 1 ] and Asser 's Life of King ...
The family tree of Scottish monarchs covers the same period in Scotland and, equally as shown, directly precedes the family tree of the British royal family. The family tree of Welsh monarchs is relevant before the 1282 conquest by England. For a simplified family tree see family tree of British monarchs (and alternative successions of the ...
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs. This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion. For a simplified view, see: Family tree of British monarchs.
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 which later became Wessex.
The name Cynric has an ostensibly straightforward Old English etymology meaning "Kin-ruler". However, this name's normal Old English form is Cyneric.As some scholars have proposed that both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, had Celtic names, [5] an alternative etymology has been postulated, deriving the name from Brittonic "Cunorix", meaning "Hound-king" (which developed into ...