Template:Wessex family tree

The chart shows their (claimed) descent from the traditional first king of Wessex, Cerdic, down to the children of Alfred the Great. A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree.

The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), and Asser's Life of King Alfred. These sources are all closely related and were compiled at a similar date, and incorporate a desire in their writers to associate the royal household with the authority of being a continuation of a unified line of kingship descended from a single original founder.

One apparently earlier pedigree survives, which traces the ancestry of King Ine back to Cerdic. This first appears in a 10th-century manuscript copy of the "Anglian collection" of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. The manuscript is thought to have been made at Glastonbury in the 930s during the reign of King Æthelstan  (whose family traced their own royal descent back to Cerdic via a brother of King Ine), but the material may well date back to the earliest reconstructable version of the collection, c. 796; and possibly still further back, to 725–726. Compared to the later texts, this pedigree gives an ancestry for Ceolwald as son of Cuthwulf son of Cuthwine which in the later 9th-century texts sometimes seems confused; and it states Cynric as son of Creoda son of Cerdic, whereas the Chronicle annals go to some length to present Cerdic and Cynric as a father-and-son pair who land in and conquer the southern part of Wessex together (a narrative now considered spurious by historians).

Wessex Family Tree

The red border indicates the monarchs   The thick border indicates the close relatives of the monarchs (parents, spouses and children) Cerdic d. 534 1st King of Wessex 519–534 Cynric d. 560 2nd King of Wessex 534–560 Ceawlin d. 593 3rd King of Wessex 560–592 Cutha ? Ceolwulf ? Cuthwine b. 565 Ceol d. 597 4th King of Wessex 592–597 Ceolwulf d. 611 5th King of Wessex 597–611 Cuthgils ? Cynebald ? Cedda c. 590? Cuthwulf fl. 592–648 Cynegils d. 643 6th King of Wessex 611–643 Pybba d. c. 606–615 King of Mercia 593–c. 606–615 Cenferth ? Cenberht c. 620–661 Ceolwald ? Cwichelm d. 636 7th King of Wessex 625–636 Centwine d. 685 13th King of Wessex 676–685 Seaxburh d. c. 674 (11th) Queen of Wessex c. 672 – c. 674 Cenwalh d. 674 8/10th King of Wessex 642–645–648–683 sister of Penda ? Penda c. 606–655 9th King of Wessex 645–648 Eowa ? Cenfus d. 674 12th King of Wessex 674 Cædwalla c. 659–689 14th King of Wessex 685–688 Mul d. 687 King of Kent 686–687 Cenred ? Cuthred b. before 639–661 Osmod ? Æscwine d. 676 12th King of Wessex 674–676 Ingild ? Ine c. 670–after 726 15th King of Wessex 689–726 Æthelburg ? Æthelheard d. 740? 16th King of Wessex 726–740 Cuthred d. 756 17th King of Wessex 740–756 Eanwulf ? Eoppa ? Sigeberht ? 18th King of Wessex 756–757 Cyneheard d. 786 Cynewulf d. 786 19th King of Wessex 757–786 Thingfrith ? Eafa ? Offa d. 796 King of Mercia 757–796 Ealhmund c. 745–827 King of Kent 784 Beorhtric d. 802 20th King of Wessex 786–802 Eadburh fl. 787–802 Ecgberht c. 770–839 21st King of Wessex 802–839 Judith c. 843–870 Æthelwulf c. 795–858 22nd King of Wessex 839–858 Osburh ? Æthelstan d. c. 852 King of Kent 839–851 Æthelbald c. 831–860 23rd King of Wessex 858–860 Æthelberht c. 835–865 24th King of Wessex 860–865 Æthelred I c. 847–871 25th King of Wessex 865–871 Alfred the Great c. 848–849–899 26th King of Wessex 871–c. 886 1st King of the Anglo-Saxons c. 886–899 English monarchs family tree