Cuthred Cwichelming

Cuthred of Wessex Cwichelming ( "Cuthred of Wessex, son of Cwichelm" even Cuthrid, Cuðred, Cuthred of Wessex, Cuþræd, Eadred ; † 661 ) was 648 to 661, a sub-king of gewisse , an ethnic group in the late 7th century as "Westsachsen" the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex formed.

Life

Cuthred was from the Wessex family . He was a son of King Cwichelm . Cuthred's descendants are not known. Cuthred's father, Cwichelm, died in 636. In 639, Cuthred converted to Christianity and was baptized in Dorchester-on-Thames by Saint Birinus , who had baptized his father three years earlier . Birinus was also Cuthred's godfather.

In 648 his uncle King Cenwalh came back to power under unknown circumstances. Cuthred presumably also made claims to the throne. In 648 Cenwalh gave Cuthred huge lands of 3,000 hidas near Ashdown in Berkshire , an area disputed between the Gewissæ and Mercia . The area was almost half of a kingdom like Lindsey , Sussex or Essex . Cuthred and also Cenberht seem to have been subreguli ("sub-kings").

In 661 King Wulfhere of Mercia invaded Wessex. Cenwalh presented himself for battle at Posentesbyrg (location unknown). Persecuted by Wulfhere, however, he had to withdraw to Ashdown in Berkshire. Cuthred and Cenberht died that same year.

swell

• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 636, 639, 648, 661, online in Project Gutenberg (English)
• Æthelweard : Chronica  II 6-7 for years 639, 672, online in the Internet Archive (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)
• Barbara Yorke: Wessex in the early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early History of Britain) , Continuum, 1995, ISBN 978-0718518561 .

Web links

• Cuthred 1 in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Cuthred in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 648.
2. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 636 and 639. Cf. Æthelweard, Chronica II 6 for the year 639.
3. ↑ Manuscript E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls him here "Eadred" ( for the year 648 ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Barbara Yorke: Cenwalh  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
5. ↑ The Tribal Hidage on the Georgetown University website .
6. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , pp. 144-147.
7. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 661.

predecessor	Office	successor
Cenberht  ?	Sub -king of Wessex at the time of Cenwalh 648-661 with Cenberht as another sub-king	Seaxburg