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CYNRIC
HUSBAND:
CYNRIC. King of Wessex. [CHART A1].
Son of CREODA. Sometimes said to be the son of Cerdic. Was with Cerdic in the invasion of Briton. After the death of Cerdic, he gave the isle of Wight to Stuf and Whitgar, his cousins. He became the King of Wessex in 534 A.D., upon the death of Cerdic. In 552 he defeated the Britons in a battle near the Roman city of Sorbiodunum, called by the Saxons Searo-byrig (now Sarum). He died in 560.
CHILDREN of CYNRIC
- CEAWLIN, King of Wessex. (Ceolin).
CUTHA. (Cuthwine). In 577, with his brother Ceawlin, defeated the Britons in a great battle at Deorham (Derham) in Gloucestershire, and obtained possession of the Roman cities of Glevum, Corinium, and Aquae Solis, which became known to the Saxons by the name of Glev-ceaster or Gleow-ceaster (Gloucester), Cyren-ceaster (Cirencester, and Bathan-ceaster (Bath). He died in 584 A.D.
SOURCES:
- [S1]. The Celt, The Roman, and the Saxon. Thomas Wright. London:Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 1852.
- [S2]. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel. Charles Plummer. Clarendon Press:Oxford. 1965.
- [S3]. The official website of Alynia H. Rule. http://www.ancuairt.org/genealogy/cerdic.htm.