Cerdic Wessex

• Death Notes
  • B: Abt. 467
    P: Saxony, Germany
    D: Abt. 534
    P: Wessex, England

• General Notes
  • # Note:
    
        Cerdic was born before 495 and died in 534. King of the West Saxons 519-534, was a Saxon earldorman who founded a settlement on the coast of Hampshire, England in 495, assumed the title of King of the West Saxons in 519, and became ancestor of
        the English royal line.
    
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    # Note: "AD 495. This year came two leaders into Briain, Cerdic and Cynric, his son, with five ships....
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    # Note: 519. This year Cerdic and Cynric undertook the government of the West Saxons; the same year they fought with the Britons at a place called Charford. From that day they have reigned the children of the West Saxon kings.
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    # Note: 530. They conquered the isle of Wight.
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    # Note: 532. Crowned at Winchester Cathedral.
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    # Note: 534. This year died Cerdic, the first king of the West Saxons. Cynric his son succeeded to the government, and reigned afterwards twenty six winters."
    # Note:
    # Note: (Anglo-Saxon Chronicles)
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    # Note: "The Royal Line" chart has Cerdic going back to Zarah, son of Judah of the Bible.
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    # Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
    # Note: Page: 1-1
    
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