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CERDIC ap ELESA
First King of the Saxons


BIRTH: Abt 450 in Wessex, England
DEATH: Wessex, England
FATHER: Elesa ap ESLA - Abt 424 in Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany
MOTHER: Unknown

MARRIAGE: Unknown

CHILD:

1. Crioda ap CERDIC - Abt 468 in Wessex, England


Cerdic and Cynric his son came to Britain with five ships
and landed at Cerdic's-ore. This was in 495 A.D.

Cynric began to rule and he held the government for twenty-six years.
He died in 534 and his son Ceawlin succeeded him and reigned for seventeen years.

The writing in the first quarter of the twelfth century by Flountus,
a monk of Worcester, shows that Cerdic descended from Woden.

The Royal Line chart lists this person back to Zarah who was the son of Judah,
son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham in the Bible.
also notes that he was "the Viking chief who set up the
on Kingdom in 508 A.D."


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