Cenred of Wessex
Cenred of Wessex was a member of the House of Wessex and a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert. It is possible that Cenred ruled alongside his son Ine for a period. There is weak evidence for joint kingships, and stronger evidence of subkings reigning under a dominant ruler in Wessex, not long before his time.[1] Ine acknowledges his father's help in his code of laws,[2] and there is also a surviving land-grant that indicates Cenred was still reigning in Wessex after Ine's accession.[3][4]
His father was Ceolwald of Wessex. Cenred had at least three other children.
- Ine, king of Wessex and married Æthelburg of Wessex
- Ingild, the great-grandfather of Ealhmund of Kent, and the great-great grandfather of Egbert
- Cuthburh, who married Aldfrith of Northumbria, and became abbess of Wimborne
- Cwenburh, who may have succeeded her sister as abbess at Wimborne.
See also
Notes
References
- Primary sources
- Ine's charters at Anglo-Saxons.net
- Secondary sources
- Kirby, D.P. (1992). The Earliest English Kings. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-09086-5.
- Yorke, Barbara (1990). Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. London: Seaby. ISBN 1-85264-027-8.
External links
- Cenred 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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