House
House of Wessex
Family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom
- Dated until 1093 CE
- Also called House of Cerdic
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 37
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
5 children in the house
- Æthelstan of Kent until the 850s CE
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Æthelbald c. 835 CE – 860 CE -
Æthelberht 836 CE – 865 CE -
Æthelred I 837 CE – 871 CE -
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Alfred the Great 849 CE – c. 899 CE 3 children in the house
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Cerdic of Wessexuntil 534 CE · 1st King of Wessex from 519 to 534 - Æthelstan of Kentuntil the 850s CE · Child of Osburh
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Æthelwulfuntil 13 January 858 CE · King of Wessex -
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Eadgifu of Kentbefore 904 CE – after 966 CE · third wife of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex - Ælfgifu of Shaftesburyuntil 944 CE · first wife of Edmund I
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Eadgifu of Wessexuntil after 951 CE · Child of Edward the Elder -
Edgar Æthelingbefore 1053 CE – 12th century CE · Child of Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile - Æthelbaldc. 835 CE – July 860 CE · Child of Osburh
- Æthelberht836 CE – 865 CE · Child of Osburh
- Æthelred I837 CE – 871 CE · Child of Osburh
- Alfred the Great849 CE – c. 26 October 899 CE · Child of Æthelwulf
- Ealhswithc. 852 CE – 5 December 902 CE · Anglo Saxon royal consort
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Æthelflædc. 870 CE – 12 June 918 CE · Child of Ealhswith -
Edward the Elderc. June 874 CE – 17 July 924 CE · Child of Ealhswith -
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders877 CE – 7 June 929 CE · Child of Ealhswith - Ælfwynnc. 888 CE – 919 CE · Child of Æthelflæd
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Æthelstanc. 895 CE – 27 October 939 CE · Child of Edward the Elder - Æthelflæd of Damerham10th century CE · Anglo Saxon queen consort
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- Ælfweard of Wessex904 CE – 2 August 924 CE · Child of Edward the Elder
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Eadgyth910 CE – 26 January 946 CE · Child of Edward the Elder -
Edmund Ic. 920 CE – 26 May 946 CE · Child of Edward the Elder -
Eadburh of Winchesterafter 920 CE – 15 June 960 CE · Child of Edward the Elder -
Edred of England923 CE – 23 November 955 CE · Child of Edward the Elder -
Eadwigc. 940 CE – 1 October 959 CE · Child of Edmund I -
Ælfthryththe 940s CE – 17 November 1000 CE · 10th century queen consort of England -
Edgar of England943 CE – 8 July 975 CE · Child of Edmund I -
Edith of Wilton961 CE – 15 September 984 CE · Child of Edgar of England -
Edward the Martyr963 CE – 18 March 978 CE · Child of Edgar of England -
Æthelred the Unreadyc. 967 CE – 23 April 1016 CE · Child of Edgar of England -
Emma of Normandy987 CE – 6 March 1052 CE · Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor -
Edmund II of Englandc. 988 CE – 30 November 1016 CE · Child of Æthelred the Unready - Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile11th century CE · Wife of Edward the Exile
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Edward the Confessorbetween 1003 and 1005 CE – 5 January 1066 CE · Child of Æthelred the Unready -
Alfred Aetheling1012 CE – 5 February 1037 CE · Child of Æthelred the Unready -
Edward the Exile1016 CE – 19 April 1057 CE · Child of Edmund II of England -
Saint Margaret of Scotlandc. 1045 CE – 16 November 1093 CE · Child of Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile -
OsburhFirst wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Monarch of England
- 12 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1st 23 April 871 CE – 26 October 899 CE Alfred the Great king of Wessex (r. 872–901) -
2nd 26 October 899 CE – 17 July 924 CE Edward the Elder king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924) -
Gap about 3 years before the next in this house
927 CE – 27 October 939 CE Æthelstan King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939) -
1 November 939 CE – 26 May 946 CE Edmund I King of England (r. 939–946) -
946 CE – 23 November 955 CE Edred of England King of England (r. 946–955) -
955 CE – 1 October 959 CE Eadwig King of the English (r. 955–959) -
1 October 959 CE – 8 July 975 CE Edgar of England King of the English (r. 959–975) -
8 July 975 CE – 18 March 978 CE Edward the Martyr King of the English (975-978) -
978 CE – 1013 CE Æthelred the Unready King of England - 1014 CE – 23 April 1016 CE Æthelred the Unready King of England
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1016 CE – 30 November 1016 CE Edmund II of England King of the English, Wessex dynasty -
Gap about 26 years before the next in this house
1042 CE – 5 January 1066 CE Edward the Confessor Anglo-Saxon King of England from 1042 to 1066
King of Wessex
- 6 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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519 CE – 534 CE Cerdic of Wessex 1st King of Wessex from 519 to 534 -
Gap about 305 years before the next in this house
839 CE – 13 January 858 CE Æthelwulf King of Wessex -
858 CE – 860 CE Æthelbald King of Wessex -
860 CE – 865 CE Æthelberht King of Wessex -
865 CE – 871 CE Æthelred I King of Wessex (r. 865–871) - 23 April 871 CE – 26 October 899 CE Alfred the Great king of Wessex (r. 872–901)
King
- 3 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- 26 October 899 CE – 17 July 924 CE Edward the Elder king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)
- 17 July 924 CE – 2 August 924 CE Ælfweard of Wessex West Saxon monarch
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Æthelflæd Mercian monarch
King of Kent
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 1
- Dates unrecorded Æthelstan of Kent Sub-King of Kent, Essex, Sussex and in Surrey
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
- Chalcedonian Christianity 5 members
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Christianity 4 members -
Benedictines 2 members -
Catholicism 2 members - Catholic Church 1 member
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How House of Wessex connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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