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 around 534 AD. Subsequent
Imaginary depiction from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"
South Britain in the early 6th century
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Cynric
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Cynric was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kin
Cerdic of Wessex
…historicity is in doubt, and twenty-first-century researchers reject his identification with Elesa as fanciful. J. N. L. Myres noted that when Cerdic and Cynric first appear in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 495 they are described as ealdormen, which at that point in time was a fairly junior rank…
Britain, c. 540 C.E.