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Fara Unknown1,2

F, #3080, Deceased, b. 600
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Parents

FatherChrodaold Unknown (b. 575, d. 624)
MotherDaughter of Gisulf Unknown

Family: Theodo IV Unknown

SonTheodo V (II) Unknown+ (b. about 625, d. about 716)

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Also Known AsFara Unknown was also known as Fara Unknown.
MarriageFara Unknown and Theodo IV Unknown were married.2,1
DeathShe died Y Y, Y.1
User Reference NumberShe; 19706
Her husband Theodo IV Unknown died.
BirthShe was born in 600.1
Her father Chrodaold Unknown died in 624.
Her son Theodo V (II) Unknown was born about 625.

Citations

  1. [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
  2. [S1025] Bostock Family History

Cerdic Unknown1,2

M, #3090, Deceased, d. 534
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Family:

SonCynric Unknown+ (b. about 495, d. 560)

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MarriageCerdic Unknown was married.1
ResidenceHe resided See notes.1
User Reference NumberHe; 19580
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Cerdic of Wessex (d. 534) was the King of Wessex (519 –534) and is regarded as the ancestor of all subsequent Kings of Wessex.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Cerdic landed in Hampshire in 495 with his son Cynric in three keels (ships). He is said to have fought a British king named Natanleod at Netley Marsh in Hampshire and killed him in 508, and to have fought at Charford (Cerdic's Ford) in 519, after which he became first king of Wessex. The conquest of the Isle of Wight is also mentioned among his campaigns, and it was later given to his kinsmen, Stuf and Wihtgar (who had supposedly arrived with the West Saxons in 514). Cerdic is said to have died in 534 and was succeeded by his son Cynric.

The early history of Wessex in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is clearly muddled. David Dumville has suggested that Cerdic's true regnal dates are 538 -554. Some scholars suggest that Cerdic was the Saxon leader defeated by the British at the battle of Mount Badon, which was probably fought sometime between 490 and 518. This cannot be the case if Dumville is correct, and others assign this battle to Ælle or another Saxon leader.

It should also be noted that while Cerdic's area of operation was, according to the Chronicle, in the area north of Southampton, there is also stronger archaeological evidence of early Anglo-Saxon activity in the area around Dorchester-on-Thames. This is the later location of the first West Saxon bishopric, in the first half of the seventh century, so it appears likely that the origins of the kingdom of Wessex are more complex than the version provided by the surviving traditions.

Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that Cerdic is purely a legendary figure, and had no actual existence, but this is a minority view. However, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was put together in the late ninth century; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four hundred years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.

Cerdic is allegedly an ancestor to Egbert of Wessex, and therefore would be an ancestor of not only the modern British monarchy under Elizabeth II, allowing the British Royal Family to trace its roots back over 1500 years, but virtually every royal lineage in Europe.

Curiously, the name Cerdic is thought to be British – a form of the name Ceretic or Caradog (in Latin Caratacus) – rather than Germanic in origin. One explanation for this is the possibility that Cerdic's mother was British and that he was given a name used by his mother's people; if so, this would provide evidence for a degree of mixing, both cultural and biological, between the invaders and the native British.

J.N.L. Myres noted that when Cerdic and Cynric first appear in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 495 they are described as ealdormen, which at that point in time was fairly junior rank. Myres remarks that 'It is thus odd to find it used here to describe the leaders of what purports to be an independent band of invaders, who origins and authority are not otherwise specified. It looks very much as if a hint is being conveyed that Cerdic and his people owed their standing to having been already concerned with administrative affairs under Roman authority on this part of the Saxon Shore.' Furthermore, it is not until 519 that Cerdic and Cynric are recorded as 'beginning to reign', suggesting that they ceased being dependent vassals or ealdormen and became independent Kings in their own right.

Summing up, Myres believed that It is thus possible ... to think of Cerdic as the head of a partly British noble family with extensive territorial interests at the western end of the 'Litus Saxonicum. As such he may well have been entrusted in the last days of Roman, or sub-Roman authority with its defence. He would then be what in later Anglo-Saxon terminology could be described as an ealdorman. ... If such a dominant native family as that of Cerdic had already developed blood-relationships with existing Saxon and Jutish settlers at this end of the Saxon Shore, it could very well be tempted, once effective Roman authority had faded, to go further. It might have taken matters into its own hands and after eliminating any surviving pockets of resistance by competing British chieftains, such as the mysterious Natanleod of annal 508, it could 'begin to reign' without recognizing in future any superior authority.'

Some would disagree with Myres, as Cerdic is reported to have landed in Hampshire. Some also would say that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle proves that Cerdic was indeed a Saxon, however it does not prove that he had no Celtic blood. Some scholars believe that it is likely that his mother was a British Celt who left for the Continent or perhaps was a Continental Celt. Geoffrey Ashe postulates he may be a son of Riothamus.

The name Cedric (as opposed to Cerdic) arose from a misspelling in the novel Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.

Cerdic is the main protagonist in the historical novel Conscience of the King (1951) by the English author Alfred Duggan.

In the 2004 film King Arthur, Cerdic and Cynric were depicted as Saxon invaders, and were killed, respectively, by Arthur and Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cerdic was portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård. Bernard Cornwell names him as rival to Aelle of Sussex, in his Warlord Chronicles.

It is suggested that Cerdic's name is commemorated in the village of Chearsley in Buckinghamshire, which was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cerdeslai. This is assumed to be the place mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Cerdicesleah, where King Cerdic and his son Cynric defeated the Britons in 527.
His son Cynric Unknown was born about 495.
DeathCerdic Unknown died in 534.2,1

Citations

  1. [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
  2. [S1025] Bostock Family History

William Mutch

M, #3091, Deceased, b. 1831, d. 1911
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Parents

FatherWilliam Mutch (b. 21 November 1775, d. about March 1851)
MotherSarah Appleton (b. 1781, d. 1845)

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User Reference NumberWilliam Mutch; 24741
BirthHe was born in 1831.
His mother Sarah Appleton died in 1845.
His father William Mutch died about March 1851.
DeathWilliam Mutch died in 1911, at age ~80.

Mabel Unknown1,2

F, #3100, Deceased, d. 1082
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Parents

FatherWilliam I Unknown (b. 995, d. after 1030)
MotherHildeburg Unknown

Family: Roger de Montgomery (d. 1094)

DaughterMatilda de Montgomery+
SonRoger of Poitou Unknown+ (b. about 1058, d. before 1140)
DaughterSibyl de Montgomery+ (b. about 1066)

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Also Known AsMabel Unknown was also known as Mabel de Montgomery.
MarriageMabel Unknown and Roger de Montgomery were married.2,1
User Reference NumberShe; 19453
Her father William I Unknown died after 1030.
Her son Roger of Poitou Unknown was born about 1058 in Normandy, France.
Her daughter Sibyl de Montgomery was born about 1066.
DeathMabel Unknown died in 1082.2,1
Her husband Roger de Montgomery died in 1094.

Citations

  1. [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
  2. [S1025] Bostock Family History