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7th King of Wessex 625–636: Centwine d. 685 13th King of Wessex 676–685: Seaxburh d. c. 674 (11th) Queen of Wessex c. 672 – c. 674: Cenwalh d. 674 8/10th King of Wessex 642–645–648–683: sister of Penda? Penda c. 606 –655 9th King of Wessex 645–648: Eowa? Cenfus d. 674 12th King of Wessex 674: Cædwalla c. 659 –689 14th King of ...
The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List on folio 1r of Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 173 (also known as the Parker Chronicle). The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (also known as the West Saxon Regnal Table, West Saxon Regnal List, and Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) is the name given in modern scholarship to a list of West-Saxon kings (which has no title in its ...
He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as "North Wessex". [citation needed] In the book and television series The Last Kingdom, Wessex is the primary setting, focusing on the rule of Alfred the Great and the war against the Vikings. [47] Wessex remains a common term for the ...
This is a category for monarchs of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.. The question of who qualifies as a monarch of Wessex is sometimes a difficult question to answer. One approach is to say that no monarchs after Ælfred should be included, since from that time forward Wessex ceased to exist as a separate political entity.
Æthelbald, King of Wessex; Æthelberht, King of Wessex; Æthelred I of Wessex; Æthelred II of East Anglia; Æthelred II of Northumbria; Æthelstan of East Anglia; Æthelstan of Kent; Æthelweard of East Anglia; Æthelwold ætheling; Æthelwulf, King of Wessex; Alfred the Great
The event comes on the third day of festivities to mark 70 years since the Queen’s reign began. ... The Earl and Countess of Wessex also met the winner of a local Platinum Jubilee Pudding ...
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.
5 August – Battle of Maserfield: King Penda of Mercia kills Oswald of Northumbria and divides his realm. [5] Oswald's brother Oswiu becomes king of Bernicia, subject to Penda. c.642 or 643 – Cenwalh succeeds his father Cynegils as King of Wessex. 643. Widsith, the earliest surviving example of English heroic prose, is composed. [1] 645