Cenfus

Cenfus († 674 ?) Was from 672 to 674 a subregulus ("lower king") of the Gewissæ , an ethnic group that formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex as West Saxons towards the end of the 7th century .

Cenfus comes from the House of Wessex . He was a son of Cenfrith, grandson of Cuthgils and great-grandson of the former King Ceolwulf (Wessex) . He appears to have established himself as the sub-king of Seaxburg after King Cenwalh's death in 672 . The connections in this politically unstable time are unclear. In 674, Cenfus and Seaxburg disappeared from the sources. He was succeeded by Cenfus' son scwine .

swell

anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , online in Project Gutenberg (English)

literature

Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)
John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 .

Web links

Cenfus 1 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)

Remarks

↑ Jan Gerchow: The tradition of thought of the Anglo-Saxons. With a catalog of libri vitae and necrologies , de Gruyter, 1988, ISBN 978-3-11-011935-0 , p. 169.

↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of the West Saxons . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 511-514.

↑ ^a ^b Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 674

^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 145.

↑ John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 55.

predecessor	Office	successor
Cenwalh	King of Wessex 672–674 as sub-king of Seaxburg	Æscwine

personal data
SURNAME	Cenfus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Wessex
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century
DATE OF DEATH	674

[1] Jan Gerchow: The tradition of thought of the Anglo-Saxons. With a catalog of libri vitae and necrologies , de Gruyter, 1988, ISBN 978-3-11-011935-0 , p. 169.

[enc511-2] Simon Keynes: Kings of the West Saxons . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 511-514.

[asc674-3] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 674

[4] Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 145.

[5] John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves: The Kings and Queens of Britain , Oxford University Press, 2009 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 978-0-19-955922-0 , p. 55.