Eadwine of WESSEX
Characteristics
| Type | Value | Date | Place | Sources |
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| name | Eadwine of WESSEX |
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Events
| Type | Date | Place | Sources |
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| death | 933 | Drowned in the English Channel
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| burial | Abbaye de Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer, County of Flanders, Kingdom of France
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Parents
| Eadweard of WESSEX | Aelflaed of WESSEX |
Sources
| 1 | Foundation for Medieveal Geneology, England, Anglo-Saxon & Danish Kings - Chapter 7: Kings of Wessex
Author: Charles Cawley
Publication: Name: Medeival Lands; Location: Oak House, Vowchurch, Hereford, HR20RB, England; Date: 2001-2011;
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| Bede names the three Germanic tribes which invaded Britain as"Saxonibus, Anglis, Iutis", adding that the Saxons were ancestors of"Orientales Saxones, Meridiani Saxones, Occidui Saxones" (people ofEssex, Sussex and Wessex)[1221]. In common with the founder kings ofthe other main Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Cerdic first king of the WestSaxons is recorded as descended from Woden. This mythical descent isset out in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[1222]:"Woden/Bældæg/Brand/Frithugar/Freawine/Wig/Gewis/Esla/Elesa/Cerdic".Bede records that the kings of "Occidentalium Saxonum" were formallycalled "Geuissæ"[1223], after one of these mythical ancestors,although in later genealogies and histories this name was superseded. The early history of Wessex is poorly documented, compared inparticular with that of the kingdoms of Kent and Northumbria. Theinfluence of Christianity was limited in early Wessex. There is noreference to Wessex in the mid-6th century De Excidio Brittaniæ ofGildas or in Nennius´s Historia Brittonum. Bede´s HistoriaEcclesiastica, compiled in the late 720s/early 730s, contains someisolated references to the kings of Wessex but they are insufficientto enable their genealogy to be reconstructed adequately. TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle, and a West Saxon genealogical Regnal Listproduced in the late 9th century, are therefore the only sources whichprovide information on the family relationships of the early kings ofWessex. Both sources link all the kings into one family, with longdescents traced through different parallel junior lines which includeno information on the individuals concerned except their names,although the Chronicle and the Regnal List differ in some points ofdetail which cannot be reconciled into one definitive version. Asnoted in the Introduction to the present document, it appears that thecompilers of these records were motivated more by a desire todemonstrate a linear succession of kings, in order to emphasisecontinuity, rather than by a quest for factual accuracy.Nevertheless, the Chronicle does include some genealogical informationabout the kings of Wessex which appears reliable. This comprisesprecise details of family relationships between individual kings,particularly between the mid-6th and mid-7th centuries, which do notform part of the lines of descent. For the purposes of the presentchapter, such information has been treated as "core" around which somefamily reconstruction can be hazarded. Apart from that, theinformation in the extended lines of descent has been noted but has,for the most part, not been considered reliable enough to show preciserelationships in this chapter. The dating of events in all sources relating to Wessex is suspect.This is exacerbated by the relatively infrequent inter-marriage orother contact between the kingdom of Wessex and the other Anglo-Saxonkingdoms, resulting in a relative absence of outside data pointsagainst which information about the West Saxon royal family can beverified. |
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