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Prince Cutha of Wessex
M, b. circa 593, #322

Father

Prince Cuthwine of Wessex b. circa 564, d. after 593

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44th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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45th great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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45th great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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5th great-grandfather of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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Cuthwulf (?)

Name Variation

Cudam (?)

Birth*

circa 593

Family

Child

Prince Ceolwald of Wessex+ b. circa 622, d. after 688

Prince Cuthwine of Wessex¹
M, b. circa 564, d. after 593, #323

Father

King Ceawlin Of Wessex b. circa 547, d. circa 591

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45th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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46th great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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46th great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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6th great-grandfather of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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Birth*

circa 564

Death*

after 593

Killed at Battle of Barbery Hill

Family

Child

Prince Cutha of Wessex+ b. circa 593

Citations

From ASC. "A.D. 577. This year Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought with the
Britons, and slew three kings...and took from three cities,
Gloucester,Cirencester, and Bath."

King Cynric of Wessex¹
M, b. circa 525, d. circa 560, #325

Father

King Creoda Wessex b. circa 493

Mother

Princess (?) Wessex

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47th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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48th great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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48th great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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8th great-grandfather of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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King Centric of Wessex

Birth*

circa 525

Death*

circa 560

Family

Child

King Ceawlin Of Wessex+ b. circa 547, d. circa 591

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From ASC: "A.D. 552. This year Cynric fought with the Britons on thespot
that is called Sarum, and put them to flight....556. This year Cynricand
Ceawlin fought... at Beranbury."

Prince Eafa Of Wessex
M, b. circa 732, d. 790, #316

Father

Prince Eoppa Atheling of Wessex b. circa 706, d. 735

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39th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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40th great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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40th great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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Grandfather of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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Marriage*

Principal=Eaba (?)

Birth*

circa 732

Wessex, England

Death*

790

Mercia, England

Family

Eaba (?) b. circa 736

Children

King Elmund Of Kent+ b. 742, d. 786

King Ealhmund of Kent+ b. circa 758, d. 788

King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England"
M, b. 775, d. Nov 19, 839, #314

Father

King Ealhmund of Kent b. circa 758, d. 788

Mother

Princess Alburga Of Kent b. 749, d. 803

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37th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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38th great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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38th great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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King Ecgberht of Wessex

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King Egbert Of England, First King of all England, 827-836. The male line of Kings descendfrom
him to Edward the Confessor and the female line to the present time.

Egbert (d. 839) was King of Wessex from 802 until 839. When King
Cynewulf ofWessex died in 786, Egbert disputed with Beorhtric for
possession of the Kingdom. Beorhtric, Offa's protégé, came out on top and
Egbert departed into exile at the Frankish court. On Beorhtric's death in
802 Egbert returned and established himself as King of Wessex in a
successful revolt against Mercian ascendancy. Egbert ruled an independent
Wessex for the next twenty-three years, of which we have little record.
This was succeeded by a period of frenzied activity. In 825 he defeated
King Beornwulf of Mercia at the battle of Ellendun(probably Wroughton in
Wiltshire) and immediately afterwards send his son Ethelwulf eastwards to
wrest Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex from Mercian overlordship. He also
received an appeal for protection from the East Anglians who had rebelled
against the Mercians. The Mercian empire seemed to be falling apart as
rival claimants contended for kingship over the next few years. In 829
Egbert conquered Mercia and went on to lay waste part of Northumbria and
exact submission and tribute from its King Eanred. For a short period he
was overlord of all the English kingdoms. But in 830 Mercia threw off
West Saxon lordship and for the rest of his reign Egbert's direct
authority was restricted to Wessex and the south east. It has sometimes
been claimed that Egbert wasthe first 'King of all England.' But this is
absurd. The notion is based upon the treatment of Egbert in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, put together in the form in which we have it at
the court of Egbert's grandson Alfred and concerned above all else to
magnify the exploits of the West Saxon royal dynasty. Mercian supremacy
did not end with Offa. Ninth-century Mercia may have become subject to
dynastic instability---and which Anglo-Saxon kingdom had not?---but it
could still produce some imposing rulers such as Cernwulf (796-821),
Wiglaf [827-40] and Beorhtwulf [840-52]. Further to the north the
Northumbrian King Eanred [808-40] continued to rule a Kingdom stretching
from the Humber tothe First of Forth: the submission to Egbert in 829
had no lasting effect. Nevertheless, Egbert's reign is an important one.
In the first place, he consolidated West Saxon domination over the
remaining British princes of the south-west in a series of campaigns in
815, 825, 830 and 838. Secondly, his annexation of south-eastern England
in 825 was to be permanent. Kent became a dependency where West Saxon
princes could learn the business of kingship; just as Egbert entrusted
Kent to his son Ethelwulf, so after his accession in 839 Ethelwulf placed
his son Athelstan in authority there. Egbert and Ethelwulf wereat pains
to cultivate good relations with the archbishops of Canterbury; they had
learnt the lessons of Offa's failure in this respect. In particular, they
tried to ensure that the See of Canterbury should be well-disposed not
just to individual Kings of Wessex but to the dynasty as a whole; in
their ownwords in a charter of 838, 'that we and our heirs for ever
afterwards may have firm and unbroken friendship from the Archbishop and
all his successors.' They wanted to break free from the snares of
dynastic instability and discontinuity which plagued Mercia, Northumbria
and their Frankish neighbours over the Channel. That they succeeded in
doing so no doubt owed much to luck, but also something to shrewd
management. Finally, Egbert showed that he could copewith new enemies,
the Vikings. They ravaged the Island of Sheppey in 835, and defeated him
at Carhampton in 836. But when in 838 they made common cause with the
Britons of the south-west Egbert defeated them at Hingston Down in
Cornwall. In the last battle of his life, Egbert showed that the Danes
were vulnerable.

Birth*

775

Wessex, England

Marriage*

800

Wessex, England, Principal=Queen Redburga (?) of Wessex

Death*

Nov 19, 839

Wessex, England

Family

Queen Redburga (?) of Wessex b. circa 768, d. 822

Children

Princess Editha Of England b. 802

King Æthelwulf of West Saxon+ b. circa 806, d. Jan 13, 857

Prince Elesa Of Wessex¹
M, b. circa 439, d. 479, #328

Father

Esla Wessex b. 411

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50th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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51st great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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51st great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.

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11th great-grandfather of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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Birth*

circa 439

Ancient Saxony, Northern Germany

Death*

479

Family

Child

King Cerdic Of Wessex+ b. circa 467, d. circa 534

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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Cerdic came to Britain with his son Cynric and five ships in 495, obtained the kingdom of the West Saxons in 519, obtained posession of Isle of Wight in 530.

Prince Eoppa Atheling of Wessex
M, b. circa 706, d. 735, #7322

Father

King Ingild Of Wessex b. circa 680, d. circa 718

Mother

Princess Osyth Of Essex b. 679, d. 738

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40th great-grandfather of Richard Prescott Bale.

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41st great-grandfather of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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41st great-grandfather of Taylor Jane Bale.