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Cerdic of Wessex

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Cerdic of Wessex

Birth
Saxony, Germany
Death
534 (aged 66–67)
Hampshire, England
Burial
Hurstbourne Tarrant, Test Valley Borough, Hampshire, England Add to Map
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Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534. Subsequent kings of Wessex all had some level of descent claimed in the Chronicle from Cerdic.
Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534. Subsequent kings of Wessex all had some level of descent claimed in the Chronicle from Cerdic.


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