King Cerdic WEST SAXONY

   Another name for Cerdic was WEST SAXONY King.

   Ancestral File Number: G70F-BG. User ID: 634556737751040.

   General Notes:

Landed Southern Coast of England 495/519, Traditional Founder Kingdom of
Wessex, First King of WEST SAXONY Reigned 495/519-534.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p60: "166S Cerdic, King of Wessex, (Parents unknown, F of 176); invaded Hampshire in 495; took title as King of Wessex; conquered Isle of Wight in 527; defeated by Britons led by King Arthur at Battle of Mount Badon in Dorset; defeated Britons at Charford in 508 and again in 519."

The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch I, p5:
[1066] "...William [Conqueror] interpreted this reference of the election to Edgar for confirmation as an act of hostility to himself, and fined the new abbot heavily, but to us the incident is of value asevidence of the character of the movement, which tried to find a national king in this last male of Cerdic's line."

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co 1956 p65 "...The history books of our childhood attempted courageously to prescribe exact dates for all the main events...In 495 Cerdic and Cynric appeared...All that can be said about these dates is that they correspond broadly to the facts, and that these successive waves of invaders, bringing behind them settles, descended on our unhappy shores..."
p198: "[Henry II] Merlin had prophesied a deliverer; had he not in his veins blood that ran back to William the Conqueror and beyond him, through his grandmother Matilda, wife of Henry I, to Cedric [sic] and the long-vanished Anglo-Saxon line?"

The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p495, Cerdic: "Died 534, traditional founder of the kingdom of Wessex. A Saxon, he and his son Cynric are said to have landed on the southern coast of England in 495. Little is certain about him except that later West Saxon kings traced their descent from him through his son Cynric and his grandson Ceawlin."

The Formation of England 550-1042, HPR Finberg, 1974, Paladin, p17: "...To the west of Sussex, round Southampton Water, according to the confused traditions preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, an adventurer named Cerdic had founded the principality of the Gewisse. Cerdic may have been a renegade Briton, for his name is certainly British, but it seems that his war-band consisted mainly of Jutes. Their settlements occupied the valleys of the Meon and the Hamble, the Isle of Wight, and, on the other side of Southampton Water, the territory east of the Hampshire Avon..."
p21: "...inconsistencies make the early annals such a tricky source. Those relating to Cerdic are duplicated, one set bringing him to Britain in 495 and another in 519, so chronology does not help..."
p22: "...None of the early annals names Ceawlin's father, but later genealogists, rightly or wrongly, made him a son of Cynric and so were conveniently able to trace the ancestry of the whole West Saxon royal house back to Cerdic..."
p93: "...[Caedwalla's] name, like that of Cerdic, the reputed founder of the family, points to a British or partly British ancestry..."

Roman Britain and Early England 55BC-AD871, Peter H Blair, 1963, Norton Library History of England, p202-203: "...According to a persistent tradition, the kings of the West Saxons were descended from two chieftains, called Cerdic and Cynric, who landed near Southampton Water late in the fifth century and made their way inland in a series of battles fought inthe early tears of the sixth. The name Cerdic is commonly thought to be Welsh in origin, not Anglo-Saxon. The different forms in which the tradition has been preserved are inconsistent with one another both chronologically and in what they tellabout the family relationships of the men to whom they refer. Moreover they sometimes seem to represent as consecutive events what were in fact no more than variant traditions of the same events. On these and other grounds we may think that great care is needed in seeking to extract a consecutive historical account from the source which is the chief embodiment of these West Saxon traditions, namely the series of annal in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle extending from 495, when Cerdic andCynric are said to have landed in Britain, until 534 when Cerdic is said to have died. But whatever vay be the difficulties of interpreting these annal, and there is no adequate archaeological evidence to give ground for thinking that they represent the historical record of a major invasion of souther Britain from the direction of Southampton Water, the fact remains that Alfred the Great believed himself to have been descended from these men..."

Chart of World History, Edward Hull,1988, Studio Editions, Wessex 519: "...The Romans leave Britain about 426 AD, when the Picts and Scots invade from the north. The Saxons being invited over to assist in expelling them, gradually take possession of the country, and the Saxon Heptarchy (Mercia, Angles, Northumbria, Essex, Wessex, Sussex, and Kent) is formed, and exists till Egbert forms the Kingdom of England in 827. The country called Britain. The people Britons...Cerdic, King of Wessex, 519-34..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 G70F-BG Cerdic King of ESSEX Born Abt 467 Of Ancient Saxony Northern Germany Died Abt 534 Wessex England, Ancestral File Ver 4.13 8HRZ-JF Cerdic Viking Chief England Born 495 Died 534.

   Marriage Information:

Cerdic married Queen WEST SAXONY. (Queen WEST SAXONY was born about 471 in , Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany.)