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Cerdic of Wessex
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Cerdic is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were each claimed by the Chronicle to descend in some manner from Cerdic. His origin, ethnicity, and even his very existence have been extensively disputed. However, though claimed as the founder of Wessex by later West Saxon kings, he would have been known to contemporaries as king of the Gewissae, a folk or tribal group. The first king of the Gewissae to call himself 'King of the West Saxons', was Cædwalla, in a charter of 686.
Imaginary depiction from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"
Imaginary depiction from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"
South Britain in the early 6th century
South Britain in the early 6th century
Depiction of Cerdic from a 15th-century manuscript of the Historia Regum Britanniae
Depiction of Cerdic from a 15th-century manuscript of the Historia Regum Britanniae
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Image: Anglo.Saxon.migration.5th.cen
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle
The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle
A page from the [C] Abingdon II text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. This entry is for 871, a year of battles between Wessex and the Vikings.
A page from the [C] Abingdon II text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. This entry is for 871, a year of battles between Wessex and the Vikings.