Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameCerdic 1st King Of Wessex, 45G Grandfather
Web Notes notes for Cerdic 1st King Of Wessex
jparsons@@chass.utoronto.ca (John Carmi Parsons) posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@@rootsweb.com on 30 Dec 1998
Subject: Re: Egbert of England:
"It should be borne in mind that the earlier generations of the Wessex genealogy, as we possess it today, bear many hallmarks of what are known as foundation myths and may very well be inventions, long after the fact, to glorify retroactively the history of the dynasty that eventually unified England. In particular, there are many discrepancies between the account of the foundation of Wessex given by Bede and that in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The unreliability of many of the dates in the earlier generations of the pedigree is now taken for granted, and there is no way to reconcile the Chronicle's strong implication that Cerdic's people first settled in S. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with Bede's statement centuries earlier that Hampshire and Wight were not brought under the dominion of the kings of Wessex until much later. We also have two distinct versions of the pedigree, one making Cynric the son of Cerdic and the other making him Cerdic's grandson (son of Cerdic's son Creoda). Finally, some name elements in the first generations of the Wessex pedigree, esp. Cynric itself, appear more British (!) than Saxon. For an excellent, concise and highly readable summary of problems surrounding all the early Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, see Barbara
Yorke's _Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England_ (Hardback: Seaby, 1990, rpt 1992; ppb Routledge, 1997 ISBN 0-415-16639-X)."
Subject: Re: Egbert of England:
"It should be borne in mind that the earlier generations of the Wessex genealogy, as we possess it today, bear many hallmarks of what are known as foundation myths and may very well be inventions, long after the fact, to glorify retroactively the history of the dynasty that eventually unified England. In particular, there are many discrepancies between the account of the foundation of Wessex given by Bede and that in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The unreliability of many of the dates in the earlier generations of the pedigree is now taken for granted, and there is no way to reconcile the Chronicle's strong implication that Cerdic's people first settled in S. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with Bede's statement centuries earlier that Hampshire and Wight were not brought under the dominion of the kings of Wessex until much later. We also have two distinct versions of the pedigree, one making Cynric the son of Cerdic and the other making him Cerdic's grandson (son of Cerdic's son Creoda). Finally, some name elements in the first generations of the Wessex pedigree, esp. Cynric itself, appear more British (!) than Saxon. For an excellent, concise and highly readable summary of problems surrounding all the early Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, see Barbara
Yorke's _Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England_ (Hardback: Seaby, 1990, rpt 1992; ppb Routledge, 1997 ISBN 0-415-16639-X)."