Cerdic and Cynric, the Saxon leaders, were definitely historical characters, but they were the founders of WESSEX in the south of England and had nothing to do with the Saxon invasion north of the wall when the Northumbrian kingdom was established.Totally wrong and misleading elements: Even the...
Old habits die hard and she took a lover. When she was discovered she was evicted from the nunnery – thus ending up as a beggar. Asser says this is why the Kings of Wessex were not terribly keen on anointed queens. Elfrida who was the wife of King Alfred’s great-grandson became th...
Died: 560 Title / Office: king (534-560), Wessex See all related content Cynric (died 560) was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex (from 534). By some accounts he also reigned jointly (519–534) with his grandfather (or father?), Cerdic, founder of Wessex. The period was ...
Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. Learn more a
The name Wessex is an elision of the Old English form of “West Saxon.” CerdicCerdic, illustration from an edition of John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.(more) Wessex grew from two settlements: one was founded, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, by Cerdic and...