Ceawlin of Wessex, King of Wessex^{[1, 2, 3]}

- 593

• Name	Ceawlin of Wessex   [4]
  Suffix	King of Wessex
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	560
  Deposed	591
  Name	also spelled "Ceaulin" or "Caelin")
  Death	593
  Notes	Acceded: 560 Reigned 560-591, deposed by Ceolric http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01993 Ceawlin, King of Wessex, governed the West Saxons starting in 560 and reigned thirty winters. In 593 there was a great slaughter and he was driven from his kingdom, the year of his death. http://www.ancestrees.com/pedigree/2836.htm is recorded in the «u»Anglo-Saxon Chronicle «/u»as being king of the West Saxons, or «u»Wessex «/u» from «u»560 «/u» to «u»591 «/u», and named by «u»Bede «/u» in his «i»Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum«/i» as the second «u»Bretwalda «/u». The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records his death as occurring in «u»593 «/u».
  Person ID	I4861	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Cynric of Wessex, King of Wessex   d. 560
  Family ID	F1457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Cuthwine   d. 584
  Family ID	F1456	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S401] Albert F. Schmuhl The Royal Line. [S399] Stevens, Luke, Line of Adam. [S400] http://www.ancestrees.com/pedigree/5056.htm. [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).