The House of Cerdic
This was the original English royal dynasty before the Norman conquest in 1066. Wessex was one of the more powerful English kingdoms in the 9th century and consolidated its’ position to become the dominant kingdom to unify all of England by the time of 1066.

Ealhmund, King of Kent (ca 784-786), +ca 786, had issue:

• A1. Egbert, Subregulus of Kent (790/6), King of Wessex (802-39), King of Mercia (829-30), Overlord of "England" (827-39), *ca 769/80, +4.2.839/VI.839, bur Winchester Cathedral; m.Redburga, perhaps the sister of Charlemagne
  • B1. Ethelwulf, King of Wessex (839-855)+(857-858), King of Essex, Sussex & Kent (839-58), *ca 795/810, +13.1.858, bur Winchester Cathedral; 1m: ca 830 Osburga (+852/5), dau.of Oslac of Hampshire or the Isle of Wight; 2m: Verberie-sur-Oise, France 1/15.10.856 Judith of Franks (*843/444, +after 870); all issue from 1m:
    • C1. Ethelbald, King of Wessex (855-856)+(858-860), *ca 834, +20.12.860, bur Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; m.860 his father’s widow Judith of Franks (*843/444, +after 870)
    • C2. Ethelbert, Subregulus of Kent (852-865), King of Wessex (860-865), *ca 836, +autumn 865, bur Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
    • C3. Ethelred I, King of Wessex (865-871), *ca 840, +k.a.Merton 23.4.871, bur Wimborne Minster, Dorset; m.ca 868 Wulfrida N
      • D1. Ethelwald, King of York (901-902), pretender to the throne of Wessex, *ca 868, +k.a.Battle of the Holm 902; m.NN, professed nun
      • D2. Ethelhelm, +ca 898
    • C4. Alfred "the Great", King of Wessex (871-99), cr Kingston-upon-Thames, *Wantage, Dorset 849, +Winchester 26.10.899, bur Newminster Abbey but later transferred to Hyde Abbey, Winchester; m.Winchester 868/9 Ethelswitha (*ca 850/5, +as a nun at St.Mary’s Abbey, Winchester 5/8.12.905, bur there later at Winchester Cathedral), dau.of Ethelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gainas
      • D1. Edmund, co-King of Wessex, *ca 870, +before 899
      • D2. Edward "the Elder", King of Wessex (899-924), cr Kingston-upon-Thames 31.5/8.6.900, *ca 871/2, +Farndon-on-Dee 17.7.924, bur Winchester Cathedral; 1m: Egwina (+ca 901/2), dau.of a Wessex nobleman; 2m: ca 901/2 Elfleda (+920, bur Winchester Cathedral), dau.of Ealdorman Ethelhelm; 3m: ca 920 Edgiva (*ca 905, +25.8.968, bur Canterbury Cathedral), dau.of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent
        • E1. [1m.] Athelstan, King of Wessex and of a formally unified England (924-939), cr Kingston-upon-Thames 4.9.924, *ca 895, +Gloucester Palace 27.10.939, bur Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E2. [1m.] Alfred, +young
        • E3. [2m.] Edwin, Subregulus of Kent, +drowned in English Channel or murdered by order of King Athelstan 933, bur St.Bertin’s Abbey, Flanders
        • E4. [2m.] Elfweard, ? King of England (17.7.-1.8.924), +Oxford 1.8.924, bur Winchester Cathedral
        • E5. [3m.] Edmund I "the Magnificent", King of England (939-946), cr Kingston-upon-Thames 29.11.939, *ca 921, +murdered at Pucklechurch, Dorset 26.5.946, bur Glastonbury Abbey, Dorset; 1m: ca 940 St.Elgiva (+Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset ca 944, bur there), her origins are unknown; 2m: ca 946 Ethelfleda (+as a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset after 975, bur there), dau.of Alfgar, Ealdorman of the Wilsaetas; all issue by 1m:
          • F1. Edwy "the Fair", King of England (955-959) -cr Kingston-upon-Thames ca 26.1.956, *ca 941, +Gloucester 1.10.959, bur Winchester Cathedral; m.winter of 955/6 Elgiva (+Gloucester IX.959, bur Winchester Cathedral), dau.of Ethelgiva, an apparent descendant of Ethelred I
          • F2. Edgar "the Peacable", King of England (959-975) -cr Bath Abbey 11.5.973, *ca 943, +Winchester 8.7.975, bur Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset; 1m: ca 961 Ethelfleda "the Fair" (+in childbirth ca 962, bur Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire), dau.of Ealdorman Ordmaer; 2m: ca 964/5 Elfrida (*Lydford Castle, Devon ca 945, +as a nun at Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire ca.17.11.1002, bur ther), dau.of Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
            • G1. [1m.] Edward "the Martyr", King of England (975-978), *ca 962, +murdered at Corfe Castle, Dorset on orders from his stepmother 18.3.978, bur Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset
            • G2. [2m.] Edmund, *ca 965, +970/2, bur Romsey Abbey, Hampshire
            • G3. [2m.] Ethelred II "the Unready", King of England (978-1013)+(1014-16) -cr Kingston-upon-Thames 4.4.978, *ca 966/8, +London 23.4.1016, bur Old St.Paul’s Cathedral, London; 1m: ca 980/5 Elgiva (*ca 963, +Winchester II.1002, bur Winchester Cathedral), dau.of either Ealdorman Ethelbert or Thored, Ealdorman of York; 2m: Winchester Cathedral 5.4.1002 Emma of Normandy (*ca 985/7 +14.3.1052); for his issue see HERE
            • G4. [illegitimate by St.Wulfrida (*ca 945 +1000), Abbess of Wilton] St.Edith, Abbess of Barking & Nunnanminster, *ca 962, +984
          • F3. a daughter; m.Baldwin, Count of Hesdin
        • E6. [3m.] Edred, King of England (946-955) -cr Kingston-upon-Thames 16.8.946, *ca 924/5, +Frome, Somerset 23.11.955, bur Winchester Cathedral
        • E7. [1m.] St.Edith, after husband’s death became Abbess of Tamworth Abbey, Gloucestershire, *ca 900, +Tamworth 927, bur there; m.30.1.925/6 Sihtric Caoch, King of Northumbria (+927)
        • E8. [2m.] Edfleda, a nun at Winchester, +?, bur Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E9. [2m.] Edgiva (Eadgifu, Ogive), *ca 905, +953; 1m: 918/919 King Charles III of France (*17.9.879, +Peronne 7.10.929); 2m: St.Quentin, France 951 Cte Heribert de Meaux and Troyes (*ca 910, +980/4)
        • E10. [2m.] Edhilda, *ca 907/910, +26.1.937; m.926/927 Hugues Capet, Cte de Paris, Duke of France (*ca 895, +16.6.956)
        • E11. [2m.] Edith, *ca 910/913, +26.1.946/947, bur Cathedral of St.Maurice, Magdeburg; m.930 King Otto I of Germany (*22.11.912 +7.5.973)
        • E12. [2m.] Elfleda, a nun at Winchester, +ca 963, bur Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E13. [2m.] Elgiva, +1005; m.Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia (+7.2.999)
        • E14. [2m.] Ethelfleda, Abbess of Romsey, Hampshire, +?, bur Romsey
        • E15. [2m.] Ethelhilda, a lay sister or recluse at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, +?, bur Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E16. [3m.] St.Edburga, a nun at Nunnanminster Abbey, *ca 922, +Nunnanminster 15.6.960, bur Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire
        • E17. [3m.] Edgiva, *ca 923, +?; m.in infancy Louis III the Blind, King of Provence (*ca 880, +5.6.928) /OR Ebehard, Count of Nordgau (+ca 960)
        • E18. [illegitimate] Gregory, Abbot of Einsiedlen, Germany
      • D3. Ethelweard, *ca 880, +26.10.920/922
        • E1. Elfwine, +k.a.Brunanburgh autumn 937, bur Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E2. Ethelwine, +k.a.Brunanburgh autumn 937, bur Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire
        • E3. Thurcytel, Abbot of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, *ca 907, +Croyland 12.7.975, bur there
      • D4. Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians, *ca 869, +Tamworth, Staffordshire 12.6.918, bur Gloucester Cathedral; m.886/7 Ethelred, Ealdorman of Mercia (+911)
        • E1. Elfwynn, *ca 904, +after 919
      • D5. Elfrida, *ca 875/7, +7.6.929, bur St.Peter’s Abbey, Ghent; m.884/893 Ct Baldwin II of Flanders (*863/5, +10.9.918)
      • D6. Ethelgiva, Abbess of Shaftesbury, Dorset (ca 888-ca 896), +ca 896, bur there
    • C5. Ethelswitha, +Paris on a pilgrimage to Rome 888, bur Pavia; m.Palace of Chippenham, Wiltshire ca 2.4.853/854 Burgred, King of Mercia (+Rome 874, bur St.Mary’s Church, Rome)
  • B2. Athelstan, Subregulus of Kent, Essex, Sussex and Surrey, +ca 851; m.NN
    • C1. Ethelweard, Subregulus of Kent, +850
  • B3. Edith, a nun of Polesworth Abbey, Warwick, +?, bur there
• A2. St.Alburga, +as a nun at Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire 800-810; m.Wulfstan, Ealdorman of Wiltshire (+ca 800)

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