User:Doug Weller/Ancestry of the kings of Britain

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Early kingdoms of Britain
A mancus or gold dinar of Offa, a copy of the dinars of the Abbasid Caliphate (774).
A modern version of the West Saxon flag

The Ancestry of the Kings of Anglo-Saxon England has long attracted interest because the

dynasties are widely accepted in ancestral studies.[3]

The study of

websites and computer programs to build family trees. [4]

Overview

Pybba and onwards. They have variations in a number of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies.[8][9][10]

Many

Italian and Norman lines, without any evidence of Saxon ancestry.[11]

Historical record

An early na|me on record outside of the

Ceawlin and Cwichelmin 594 CE. They are never mentioned as kings but Barbara Yorke suggests "their names follow the 'C' alliteration favoured by West Saxon æthelings".[18]

Penda who were thought to have come from a family named the Iclingas, of which the legendary king Icel may have been a member, possibly living between 450 and 525 CE. The genealogy of the Iclingas details their family descent from Woden.[16]

Ancient geneaologies

The list of names in the different

genealogies
give the following pedigrees:

      Semi-Legendary or possible kings after

Godulf Geoting

      Kings in the historical record

Tiberius B v
Vespasian B vi
Lindsey 		Genealogia Lindisfarorum Ancestry of the kings of West Saxony Biographical notes
Geot Compare the Geats who are frequently mentioned in Beowulf's story.
Godulf Geoting
Godulf
Finn Goduulfing Finn Ancient pedigree.
Frioðulf Finning Frioðulf
Frealaf Frioðulfing Frealaf
Woden
 Uuoden Frealafing Woden Compare Woden, the god (pictured).
Weothulgeot
 Uinta Wodning Winta - Compare Winteringham (the homestead of Winta's people).
Wihtlaeg
 Cretta Uinting Cretta Ancient pedigree.
Wermund Cueldgils Cretting Cuelgils
Offa Cædbæd Cueldgilsing Caedbaed
Angeltheow
 Bubba Cadbæding Bubba
Eomer Beda Bubbing Beda Different spelling in Anglian collection manuscripts.
Icel Biscop Beding Biscop
Cnebba Eanferð Biscoping Eanferð
Cynewald Eatta Eanferðing Eatta Cynegils
Creoda (or Crida)[19] Alfreið Eatting Ealdfrith Cwichelm
Pybba
 Cuthred
Cearl

Another genealogy with

House of Icel
:

Ruler Reign Biographical notes Died
Icel c.527 (or c.515)–? Son of
Angeln. Led his people across the North Sea to Britain
. 		?
Cnebba ? Son of Icel. ?
Cynewald ? Son of Cnebba. ?
Creoda c.584–c.593 Son of Cynewald. Probable founder of the Mercian royal fortress at Tamworth. c.593
Pybba c.593–c.606 Son of Creoda. Extended Mercian control into the western
Midlands
. 		c.606

Ancestry of the kings of Lindsey

Main article: Kingdom of Lindsey

Manuscripts including the

Britons given by the name of King Caedbaed is strengthened by the fact that Lindsey itself is a British name". Cueldgils is another compound name in the list. The word Lindsey is formed from a Roman compound "Lindum Colonia" from which Lincoln, England derives it's name.[21]

Ancestry of the kings of Anglia

Main article: Kings of the Angles

The Kingdom of Lindsey was bounded to the southeast by

Middle Anglia, a province connected to Mercia through early histories.[21]

Ancestry of the kings of Mercia

Main article:
Ancestry of the kings of Mercia
A map of England, Wales and southern Scotland. The Britons are shown in the soutwest and northwest of England. In the northeast are the Northumbrians, with the Bernicians to the north of the Deirians. The Mercians are in the middle, with the Gainas, Lindisfaras, and Middle Angles to the east. An number of smaller tribes are shown in the south.
A map showing the general locations of the Anglo-Saxon peoples around the year 600

The origins of the kings of Mercia have been connected with the foundation of Medeshamstede, which is modern Peterborough. Nottingham is another large, modern city that sits at the heart of the territory once known as Mercia.[19]

In early times, a shadowy overlord ruled in the area called

Peada in around 653.[19]

Ancestry of the kings of Kent

Main article: Ancestry of the kings of Kent

Woden, made son of an otherwise unknown Frealaf.[22]

Ancestry of the kings of West Saxony

Main article: Ancestry of the kings of West Saxony

The ancestry of the

Creoda were the same person in Historia Anglorum, however the context of the Chronicle suggests he was a West Saxon.[19]

Two manuscripts (called

Æthelwulf and later but seemingly based on a late-8th or early 9th century source or sources.[22] Barbara Yorke agrees that confusion exists regarding the lists, saying "not all sources agree that Cyrnic was his [Cerdic] son, for in the earliest recorded version of the West Saxon genealogy in the Anglian collection Cynric is given as the son of Creoda the son of Cerdic. Creoda is not mentioned at all in the annalistic version of the origns of Wessex or in the short genealogies included in the Chronicle."[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Peter (of Ickham) (1885). The Genealogy of the Kings of Britain: From Brutus to the Death of Alfred, Tr. from a Norman-French Ms. in the Library If Trinity College, Cambridge. Priv. Print. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  2. ^ George Russell French (1841). The ancestry of ... queen Victoria, and of ... prince Albert. pp. 375–. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  3. ^ John Ashton Cannon; Ralph Alan Griffiths (November 1998). The Oxford illustrated history of the British monarchy, p. 268. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-977395-4
    . Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  5. ISBN 978-1-84383-206-5
    . Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  6. ^ Reginald Lane Poole (1969). Essays in history; presented to Reginald Lane Poole, p. 137. Clarendon Press. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  7. ^ Raymond Wilson Chambers; Charles Leslie Wrenn (1921). Beowulf: An Intoduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn. pp. 199–.
  8. ^ a b F. M. (Frank Merry), "Lindsey and its Kings", Essays presented to Reginald Lane Poole, 1927, pp. 136-150, reprinted in Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton : Edited by Doris Mary Stenton, Oxford, 1970, pp. 127-137.
  9. ISBN 1-873827-62-8
  10. ISBN 978-0-8020-9567-1
    . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  11. ^ Rodney Horace Yale (1900). Yale genealogy and history of Wales: the British kings and princes, life of Owen Glyndwr, biographies of Governor Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named, Linus Yale, Sr. ... and other noted persons (1980 reprint ed.). D.R. Yale. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  12. ISBN 978-0-8020-4850-9
    . Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  13. ^ Gordon J. Copley (1954). The conquest of Wessex in the sixth century. Phoenix House. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  14. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5. Retrieved 20 November 2012. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help
    )
  15. ^ Swanton, Michael (editor) (1996). Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Routledge. p. 66 footnote 2. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  16. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85285-154-5
    . Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  17. ^ Rapin de Thoyras (Paul, M.) (1747). The history of England. J. and P. Knapton. pp. 5–. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  18. ^
    ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3. Retrieved 22 November 2012. Cite error: The named reference "Yorke1990" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page
    ).
  19. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8264-7765-1
    . Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  20. ^ The Archaeological Journal, Volume 91, page 138, Published by British Archaeological Association, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1935.
  21. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5
    . Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  22. ^ a b c Kenneth Sisam (1955). "Anglo-saxon Royal Genealogies", Proceedings of the British Academy, 39 (1953), pp. 287–348. Cumberlege. Retrieved 23 November 2012.

External links

Genealogia Lindisfarorum in Chronicon ex chronicis


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