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 Saxon people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, in 449 following a particularly devastating raid in the north from the Picts and their allies the Romano-British administration invited two Jutish warlords - namely Hengist and Horsa - to occupy the island of Thanet in north Kent and act as mercenaries against the Picts at sea.
Most have left since World War II, many of them during the 1970s and 1980s due to the Romanianisation policies of the Ceauşescu regime.
The Saxons were considered by Charlemagne and other historians to be especially war-like and ferocious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons   (992 words)

  
 Wessex
Sir Frank Stenton ('Anglo-Saxon England'): "It seems clear that Wessex was once more a Mercian dependency when Æthelbald himself died a few months later." In fact, Æthelbald was assassinated, and Mercia underwent a period of instability as Offa established his authority.
At that very time, however, Cenwalh was carried off by a sudden and early death." Back to the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', where Bede asserts that, when Cenwalh died ".
The gradual reduction of East Anglia and the Danish midlands by the king of Wessex could never have been brought about if the Danish colonists of that country had been supported by a strong Northumbrian kingdom."
http://www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk/wessex.htm   (16495 words)

  
 Regia Anglorum - The Saxons
This is how the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and the later Anglo-Saxons viewed the first arrival of 'their' people from the migrations from Germany following the collapse of the Roman Empire, effectively legitimising their claim to the land.
This had a knock-on effect according to several continental sources who suggest that the expansion switched to northern Frankia, tempting Germanic peoples to leave England for easier gains there.
Whatever the nature of the influx of these new peoples, it's a fact that it did not happen overnight and that it was not entirely conflict.
http://www.regia.org/Saxon1.htm   (2406 words)

  
 Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 450-550
The very beginnings of the chronology of Wessex present a puzzle, in that key events are recorded twice, under different years.
There may also have been Saxons among the defenders of late 4th-century Britain: the German names of two of the Roman commanders (Fullofaudes and Fraomar) make it clear that members of some Germanic tribes were on the Romano-British side.
The annal for 577, then, may also reflect a West Saxon chronicler's belief of who should have owned the land at some later point rather than a reflection of who actually held it in the 6th century.
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet?do=seek&query=450-550   (5303 words)

  
 Saxon Hele Bay, Ilfracombe, north Devon
This is known to have required 360 hides, or warriors (a warrior was customarily supported by a hide of 120 acres) and the Manors of Berryarbor, Combe Martin and Haggington, all taxed in the later Doomsday survey at two hides, would presumably have been expected to provide two warriors each for its defence (6).
This may have been to the east of Comyn farm, where there is a field platform.
There is no evidence of widespread massacre but there is evidence of Roman-British and Saxons living together and in some cases they were invited.
http://hele.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/saxon.htm   (5833 words)

  
 CYNEGILS - LoveToKnow Article on CYNEGILS
636), he defeated the advancing Britons at Bampton in Oxfordshire in 614, and Cwichelm sought to arrest the growing power of the Northumbrian king Eadwine by procuring his assassination; the attempt, however, failed, and in 626 the West Saxons were defeated in battle and forced to own Eadwines supremacy..
Cynegils next struggle was with Penda of Mercia, and here again he was worsted, the battle being fought in 628 at Cirencester, and was probably compelled to surrender part of his kingdom to Mercia.
643), king of the West Saxons, succeeded his uncle King Ceolwulf in 611.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CY/CYNEGILS.htm   (142 words)

  
 The Anglo-Saxons
Later historians identified a 'Heptarchy' of Seven Kingdoms from about this time (though this is, in fact, something of an over-simplification of a complex political situation).
In 738, for example, the English missionary, St Boniface, has the continental Saxons saying of the English: 'We are of one blood and one bone' - a fact which he employs in convincing his fellow countrymen to support his mission to these still-pagan peoples.
Vortigern hired yet more Saxons to consolidate his position; According to one story, he married the daughter of their commander and handed him land in eastern Britain.
http://www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mf/anglosax.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Articles - Penda of Mercia
Who governed the West Saxons during the years of Cenwealh's exile is unknown; Kirby considered it reasonable to conclude that whoever ruled was subject to Penda.
Oswald of Bernicia became king of Northumbria after his victory over Cadwallon at Heavenfield.
Penda's early, successful participation in the war against the Northumbrians may have elevated his status among the Mercians and enabled him to become king, and he may have withdrawn from the war prior to Heavenfield in order to secure or consolidate his position in Mercia.
http://www.lastring.com/articles/Penda_of_Mercia?mySession=1b8f979f447659f1fec5f5d979e4411d   (4488 words)

  
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The marriage to Judith, which was probably considered as likely to lead to a change in the succession to the injury of Ethelbald and the other West-Saxon ethelings, was the primary cause of the conspiracy.
"The West Saxons chased Baldred across the Thames, and Kent, Surrey and Sussex submitted to Ecgberht, who, p;robably in 828, committed these counties to his son Ethelwulf, who certainly had a share in the kingship in that year."
This marriage was a step towards the extinction of the existance of Mercia as a separate kingdom."
http://www.frontiernet.net/~garynhelen/adameve/adameve/1783.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Channel 4 Television - Time Team Live 2001
But recent work by historian Barbara Yorke suggests that not only was there a Jutish kingdom on the Isle of Wight but also on the mainland opposite (an area that Bede describes as the 'land of the Jutes').
She argues that the history of the Jutes was lost as a result of their defeat and conquest by the West Saxons, but that they occupied large parts of what is now south Hampshire, close to the location of the Live dig.
From the Jutes are descended the men of Kent, the Victuarri (that is to say the people who inhabit the Isle of Wight) and that people who are today called the Jutes and are located in the kingdom of the West Saxons, opposite the Isle of Wight.
http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive2001/feature_jutes.html   (384 words)

  
 Channel 4 Television - Time Team Live 2001
In 1989, and in a succession of subsequent publications, Dr Barbara Yorke put forward an alternative theory, which has met with general acceptance (I cannot find any historian or archaeologist that disagrees with her conclusions).
Independently supporting this theory is the fact that Caedwalla's Saxons were known as Gewissae until this conquest and that only after 686 did they call themselves West Saxons.
She maintains that the Chronicle, first written up in the late 9th century, wanted to suggest that the West Saxons had been in control of their later heartland from the beginning.
http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive2001/feature_ethnic.html   (925 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons
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The Anglo Saxons by James Campbell, Eric John, and Patrick Wormald.
Royalty.nu - Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Alfred.html   (797 words)

  
 THE BARBARIANS: Germani et Barbari
              brought together all Germanic peoples in West
2              Gaul Under CLOVIS (I): petty kinglet to one of most powerful Germans in West
3              ARome had Fallen@ by end of 5th C. (490s - 500);  West had no Political Unity / Integrity
http://www.harding.edu/USER/jmfortner/WWW/HIST385HO5BarbariansGermaniWord.htm   (1481 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Saxons (Ancient History, Northern Europe) - Encyclopedia
A politically unified people, the Saxons were ruled by princes or chieftains.
Their assemblies, in which all classes except slaves were represented, were consulted on all issues of war and peace.
Saxons, Germanic people, first mentioned in the 2d cent.
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/S/Saxons.html   (424 words)

  
 Ine of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 721 Ine slew Cynewulf, and in 722 his queen Æthelburg destroyed Taunton, which her husband had built earlier in his reign.
In 722 the South Saxons, previously subject to Ine, rose against him under the exile, who may have been a member of the West Saxon royal house.
Ine was unable to establish his authority over neighboring Cornwall, however; in 722, the West Saxons were defeated by the Cornish by a river called Hehil.
http://www.secaucus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Ine_of_Wessex   (519 words)

  
 King Cerdic of West Saxons
The ASC states that in 530 (which may be 549), Cerdic and Cynric obtained the Isle of Wight and slew men at Wihtgarasburh.
The traditional story, as told in the ASC by the ninth century annalists seeking to find a pedigree for their great Saxon kings, was that Cerdic, the son of Elesa, and his son CYNRIC came to Britain with five ships and landed at Cerdicesford and on that day fought the British.
It has been suggested that Wihtgarasburh is in fact Wigtown in Galloway, and that Cerdic led his Saxon forces into battle in the north.
http://xpda.com/family/ind01316.htm   (729 words)

  
 Anglo Saxons
The Saxons, who had idols, were considered to be hateful to the Creator and man.
Britons who were forced west joined the other Celts in Britain.
Britons who remained were either killed or sold into slavery.
http://www.geocities.com/fairauthor/Anglo1.html   (773 words)

  
 Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wessex
A West Seaxe band of Jutes under Stuf and Wihtgar
The Gewissae (Saxons with possibly some Jutish companions) land on the south coast at Cerdices ora under the leadership of their chief, Cerdic, and begin to carve their own territory out of the Jutish/Saxon and Briton territories there.
Spent time in exile at the court of Charlemagne.
http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/KingListsBritain/EnglandWessex.htm   (709 words)

  
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Part 2: A.D. 750 - 919
This year also was Plegmund chosen by God and all his saints to the archbishopric in Canterbury.
Hasten was there with his gang, who before were stationed at Milton, and also the main army had come thither, that sat before in the mouth of the Limne at Appledore.
The king then went westward with the army toward Exeter, as I before said, and the army had beset the city; but whilst he was gone they went to their ships.
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/england/saxons2.htm   (10766 words)

  
 The Life of King Alfred: Part 1
(35) In the Saxon Chronicle (A.D. 878) it is said, that Gothrun was baptized at Aller, and his "chrism-loosing" was at Wedmore.
Also they compelled Burhred, king of Mercia, against his will, to leave his kingdom and go beyond the sea to Rome, in the twenty- second year of his reign.
And Ethelwulf, king of the West-Saxons, and his son Ethelbald, with all their army, fought a long time against them at a place called Ac-lea, (7) i.e.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/KingAlfred/part1.html   (4531 words)

  
 Anglo-Saxons.net : Æthelberht
Unlike his predecessors, Æthelberht did not appoint another member of his family as sub-king of Kent.
It was under Æthelberht that Wessex and its recent south-eastern conquests became a united kingdom.
However, when Æthelbald died in 860, the kingship of the West Saxons passed to Æthelberht, probably because Æthelred and Alfred were too young to lead a country facing Viking attacks (Alfred was only eleven).
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet?do=get&type=person&id=EthelbertOfWessex   (234 words)

  
 Northvegr - Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
Having spent the winter there with his new converts, he set out again on his way to Rome, where his cause being tried before Pope Agatho and several bishops, he was by their universal consent, acquitted of what had been laid to his charge, and declared worthy of his bishopric.
With him went the son of Sighere king of the East Saxons above-mentioned, whose name was Offa, a youth of most lovely age and beauty, and most earnestly desired by all his nation to be their king.
In the beginning of his reign, Hedda, bishop of the West Saxons, departed to the heavenly kingdom; for he was a good and just man, and exercised his episcopal duties rather by his innate love of virtue, than by what he had gained from learning.
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/bede/034.php   (1605 words)

  
 King Ceawlin of West Saxons
Although he won another victory over the British at Fethanlea in 584, it was not without cost, and his ally Cutha was slain.
In 568 (or 583) he teamed up with fellow Saxon cutha to fight on a united front against athelbert, the new king of Kent, who was expanding his frontiers, which suggests that Ceawlin was stretching his own borders to the east.
His other battles, especially at Dyrham, in 577 (this date may be accurate) were to the west and consolidated his kingdom around Wiltshire and Somerset.
http://xpda.com/family/ind01319.htm   (525 words)

  
 All my Ancestors and then some - pafg17 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
He says that the West Saxons, of whom he was supposedly the leader, only began their campaign by conquering the Isle of Wight about AD 530.
Cynric King of The West Saxons [Parents] was born WFT Est.
Traditionally, a Saxon leader who fought against the Britons in the Arthurian period.
http://www.soft-light.com/allabbey/pafg17.htm   (328 words)

  
 CEAWLIN - LoveToKnow Article on CEAWLIN
Silchester was taken, and moving eastwards Ceawlin and his brother Cutha defeated the forces of ~thelberht, king of Kent, at the battle of Wibbandun in 568.
Uriconium, a town near the Wrekin, and Pengwyrn, the modern Shrewsbury, were destroyed; but soon Ceawlin was defeated by the Britons at Fethanleag or Faddiley, near Nantwich, and his progress wa~ effectually checked.
593), king of the West Saxons, first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the date 556 as fighting with his father Cynric against the Britons at the battle of Beranbyrig or Barbury Hill.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CE/CEAWLIN.htm   (212 words)

  
 (History of the World Part 4)
Invasion of Makkah by Abraha the Viceroy of Yemen, his retreat.
Emperor Justinian I sends large army under Narses to confront Totila, and Totila is killed in battle near Taginae, in the Apennines west of Ancona.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: "In this year Cerdic and Cynric obtained the kingdom of the West Saxons, and the same year they fought against the Britons at a place now called Cerdices-ford.
http://webpages.charter.net/astroweaver/history/501to599.html   (278 words)

  
 Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are also a few in Hampshire who argue that southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were once a Jutish province in their own right and deserve to be treated differently to the rest of Wessex.
Wessex culture - an archaeological label used anachronistically to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
The government office region of South West England covers a different area, consisting of Hardy's Wessex less Berkshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, but including Cornwall and Gloucestershire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex   (920 words)

  
 Regia Anglorum - A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon England
Vortigern, the post-Roman Kentish king, is often left to take the blame, but he was no doubt only one of several leaders who took this course.
This finally ended in an agreement with the West Saxon king which left them in control of half of the country.
It is noteworthy that his son, Æthelwold, was the first king of Wessex to inherit the throne from his father since the seventh century.
http://www.regia.org/history.htm   (3171 words)

  
 All My Family
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.
This year died Cerdic, the first king of the West Saxons.
CEAWLIN, son of Cynric, undertook the government of the West Saxons,
http://home.earthlink.net/~artdugan/d7.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Aethelwulf --  Encyclopædia Britannica
He reportedly rebelled against his father either before (855) or on the latter's return from Rome in 856 and deprived him of Wessex, which he ruled until his death.
king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, who succeeded to the subkingdom of Kent during the lifetime of his father Aethelwulf and retained it until the death of his elder brother Aethelbald in 860, when he became sole king of Wessex and Kent, the younger brothers Aethelred and Alfred renouncing their claim.
As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish Vikings.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9003898?tocId=9003898   (386 words)

  
 Anglo-Saxon Genealogy (GeoCities)
This page is devoted to genealogical research on the Anglo-Saxon people.
This lineage extends all the way to Oden, Freya, and Thor, who were historical figures later transformed into gods as ancestral tales were retold over the centuries.
This was a time of transition following the defeat of Rome by the Celts, when tribes once loosely classified as Celts by the Romans were beginning to migrate, expand and form larger units in the early stages of nation-building.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9663   (476 words)

  
 Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Kent
East Seaxe, who had been settling the territory north of the Thames since c.500.
A West Saxon temporarily rules the kingdom in Caedwalla's name.
The (eastern) capital was the Roman city of Durovernum Cantiacorum, called Cantwarabyrig (modern Canterbury, "fortress of the Men of Kent") by the Jutes.
http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/KingListsBritain/EnglandKent.htm   (410 words)

  
 Facts about Taeppa and Creoda can be found here,among the other things.
In old West Saxon regnal list were Creoda’s name appears as King of Wessex, his father is unnamed and unknown.
Creoda from Lindsey left issue: son named Cueldgils,who might have been the next King of Lindsey, but of whom nothing is known.
2) Certain ‘Creoda’ King of West Saxons appears in some ancient regnal lists, but about whom nothing is known.
http://www.ancientcoins.ca/taeppa/kings/Creoda.htm   (288 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Anglo-Saxon Law - Extracts From Early Laws of the English.
If any one plot against the king's life, of himself, or by harbouring of exiles, or of his men; let him be liable in his life and in all that he has....
I, then, Alfred, king, gathered these (laws) together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my 'witan'....
I, then, Alfred, king of the West Saxons, shewed these to all my 'witan' and they then said that it seemed good to them all to be holder.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/saxlaw.htm   (4683 words)

  
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - CHAPTER III
.D. This year, in which Hedda succeeded to his bishopric, Escwin died; and Centwin obtained the government of the West- Saxons.
A.D. This year was slain Cynric, etheling of the West- Saxons; Edbert, King of Kent, died; and Ethelbert, son of King Wihtred, succeeded to the kingdom.
A.D. This year Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, fought with the proud chief Ethelhun.
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/english/TheAnglo-SaxonChronicle/chap4.html   (4169 words)

  
 Britannia: The AngloSaxon Chronicle
A.D. This year began Ceolwulf to reign over the West-
A.D. This year died Cerdic, the first king of the West-
A.D. This year Cerdic and Cynric took the isle of Wight,
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/501-97.html   (892 words)

  
 New Page 1
Although the British kingdoms of the north and west of Britain were established by the turn of the 5th century, the structure of the south and east is much less certain, and the area could have been ripe for territorial gains.
This partners the 32 blue plaques that have recently been installed on some of the town's most significant buildings.
Some of the descendants of the northern king, Coel Hen, appear to have moved south into this potential vacuum and made their mark on the Midlands of Britain, probably once British central administration had collapsed (with the death of Arthur?).
http://www.pendleyusa.com/pendley.htm   (705 words)

  
 Northvegr - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
A.D. This year Cerdic and Cynric took the isle of Wight, and slew many men in Carisbrook.
A.D. This year died Cerdic, the first king of the West- Saxons.
Their king was called Seabert, the son of Ricola, Ethelbert's sister, whom Ethelbert placed there as king.
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/anglo/001_03.php   (1508 words)

  
 My Family
Children were: Cutha II of the West Saxons,
Children were: King Ceawlin of the West Saxons.
Children were: King Cenred of the West Saxons.
http://sneakers.pair.com/roots/b7.htm   (892 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egbert (King)
He, however, won a great victory over the allies at Hengestdune, on the borders of Cornwall, after which he remained at peace till his death.
In 837 he again had to meet a great fleet of Northmen, who on this occasion were helped by an insurrection of the West Welsh.
He came of the royal race descended from Ine of Wessex and, owing to his pretensions to power, was exiled by the joint action of Beorhtric of Wessex and Offa of Mercia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05325b.htm   (532 words)

  
 CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA (1880 EDITION): Alfred the Great
His father was Ethelwolf, son of Egbert, king of the West Saxons; and though the youngest of four sons, he succeeded to the crown, on the death of his brother Ethelred, at the age of 23.
A., no longer able to collect an effective army, was obliged to seek security in the hills and forests, and for some time found refuge in a cowherd's hut.
Among his original works in the Anglo-Saxon language are Laws of the West Saxons, Institutes, Chronicles, Meditations, andc.
http://www.freewebs.com/matthewshistory/library/chambers_alfredthegreat.html   (831 words)

  
 webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
The circumstance of his rise to power, as a pawn in the ambitions of others, did not alter throughout his 48 years of life.
By 871, the West Saxons were retreating back into their own lands, and in the Battle of Merton, King Æthelred was slain, and the leadership of the Saxons was given to Alfred.
The nickname of Unready is though to derive from the Saxon word meaning 'with no reputable policy' which can be taken as both accurate and ironic in that Ethelred is itself said to have meant 'noble policy'.
http://www.bementfamily.com/webged/bement.wbg/wga2.html   (4551 words)

  
 Press release - BLUE PETER VISTS THE SAXONS AT STOW
Press release - BLUE PETER VISTS THE SAXONS AT STOW
Filming for the show took place last autumn but BBC executives were so impressed with their day at West Stow they decided to postpone the original transmission date, in November 2003, to carry out further work on the film footage and develop it into a major feature.
West Stow Ranger, Christine Lewis, is delighted the show will finally be shown on BBC 1 and comments:
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/new/pr2402041.cfm   (344 words)

  
 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons
In the 800's the cycle partly repeated itself, as the Christian Anglo-Saxons were invaded by the Danes, pagan raiders, who rapidly conquered the northeast portion of England.
In the 500's, pagan Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, invaded Britain and drove the Christian Celts out of what is now England into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
Alfred was born in 849 at Wantage, Berkshire, youngest of five sons of King Aethelwulf.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/60.html   (515 words)

  
 Ine --  Encyclopædia Britannica
His predominance was made possible by the death of the strong king Wihtred of Kent (725) and the abdication of Ine of Wessex (726).
One of the most powerful West Saxon rulers before Alfred the Great, Ine was the first West Saxon king to issue a code of laws, which are an important source for the structure of early English society.
also spelled Ini Anglo-Saxon king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 688 to 726.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9042377?tocId=9042377   (499 words)

  
 Biography: Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr (5 August 642)
Beginning in the year 449, the pagan Germanic peoples known as the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded Britain and drove the native Britons, a Christian Celtic people, north and west into Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Cornwall.
To this day, there are seven principal dialects of English spoken in England, and the seven areas in which they are spoken are substantially the same as the areas of the seven ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
They established seven principal kingdoms (the Heptarchy) in England: The Saxon kingdoms of Essex, Wessex and Sussex (East Saxons, West Saxons, and South Saxons), the Angle kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria, and the Jute kingdom of Kent (in southeast England, the London area).
http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/08/05.html   (687 words)

  
 Lineage of Saxon Kings from 495 to 1057
Cuthwine, son of Ceawlin and father of Cutha, did not rule,
Cerdic, 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 the ancestor of the English royal line.
Ceawlin, son of Cynric, undertook the government of the West Saxons, 560 and reigned thirty winters.
http://patriot.net/~crouch/abor/L8-1-22.html   (425 words)

  
 West Saxons - definition of West Saxons in Encyclopedia
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/West_Saxons   (50 words)

  
 Genealogy - The Rulers of England
Ceawlin, son of Cynric, King of the West Saxons:"In 560, Ethelbert came to the kingdom of Kent, and held it fifty-three winters...This year there was a great slaughter of Britons at Wanborough; Ceawlin was driven from his kingdom..593.
Egbert, son of a Kentish noble but claimed descent from Cerdic: founder and King of Wessex (kingdom of the West Saxons): 802-839 First King of England: 829-839
This year died Ceawlin." [Author cites as sources The Anglo Saxon Chronicle and Century Cyclopedia of Names.]
http://provenlines.com/hist5.html   (1105 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on Alfred the Great
In this year the army again went west, which had before landed in theeast, and then up the Seine, and there took winter quarters at the city ofParis.
And in the same year a larger naval force assembled among the Old Saxons; andthere was a great fight twice in that year, and the Saxons had the victory; andthere were Frisians with them.
In the same year King Alfred restored London; and all the Angle raceturned to him that were not in the bondage of the Danish men; and he thencommitted the burgh to the keeping of the ealdorman Ethered.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/angsax-chron1.html   (948 words)

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