| BIRTH: 546 in Wessex, England DEATH: 584 in the Battle of Barbary Hill BURIAL: FATHER: Ceawlin ap CYNRIC - Abt 510 in Wessex, England MOTHER: Unknown MARRIAGE: Unknown CHILDREN: 1. Cynebeald (Cynebald) ap CUTHWINE - Abt 570 in Wessex, England 2. Ceadda ap CUTHWINE - Abt 575 in Wessex, England 3. Cuthwulf (Cutha) ap CUTHWINE - Abt 583 in Wessex, England |
Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought agianst the Britons killed Kings Conmail, Condiddan,
and Fairnmail at a place Dyrham. They captured three cities:
Gloucester, Cirencester, and Bath.
Cutha was killed there in 584 at a place called Fretherne.
{"The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," trans. by Dorothy Whitelock (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press, 1961), p.14.}
Some think that it is possible that Cuthwine and his son Cuthwulf/Cutha are one and the same person.
(ASC 577, 854) See: The Rise of Wessex, Trelawlney D. Reed, pg. 31.