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The '''Ancestry of the kings of Britain''' has long attracted historians' interest because the [[monarch]]s of [[United Kingdom|Britain]] trace their lineage from them.<ref name="Ickham)1885">{{cite book|author=Peter (of Ickham)|title=The Genealogy of the Kings of Britain: From Brutus to the Death of Alfred, Tr. from a Norman-French Ms. in the Library If Trinity College, Cambridge|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8OiMGwAACAAJ|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=1885|publisher=Priv. Print.}}</ref>
The '''Ancestry of the kings of Britain''' has long attracted historians' interest because the [[monarch]]s of [[United Kingdom|Britain]] trace their lineage from them.<ref name="Ickham)1885">{{cite book|author=Peter (of Ickham)|title=The Genealogy of the Kings of Britain: From Brutus to the Death of Alfred, Tr. from a Norman-French Ms. in the Library If Trinity College, Cambridge|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8OiMGwAACAAJ|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=1885|publisher=Priv. Print.}}</ref> An early king on record outside of the [[legendary genealogies]] is called [[Creoda]] or [[Cretta]],<ref name="Bredehoft2001">{{cite book|author=Thomas A. Bredehoft|title=Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OZWhnrn5m6EC&pg=PA167|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=2001|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4850-9|pages=167–}}</ref> mentioned in the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]], of the [[Anglian collection]], entry 519<ref name="Copley1954">{{cite book|author=Gordon J. Copley|title=The conquest of Wessex in the sixth century|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kgFIAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=1954|publisher=Phoenix House}}</ref> and 855 B, C, and D.<ref name="PrydeGreenway1996">{{cite book|author1=E. B. Pryde|author2=D. E. Greenway|author3=S. Porter|coauthors=I. Roy|title=Handbook of British Chronology|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA21|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=23 February 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56350-5|pages=21–}}</ref> Creoda has been [[delete]]d from some of the genealogies.<ref name="The Genealogist">{{cite book|title=The Genealogist, p. 87|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pLBnAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=2001|publisher=The Association}}</ref>


[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] wrote a legendary [[chronology]] of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the [[Historia Regum Britanniae]] c. 1136 CE.<ref name="Asaph)Reeve2007">{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)|author2=Michael D. Reeve|author3=Neil Wright|title=The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ryl4gq-IoMgC&pg=PA68|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=2007|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-206-5|pages=68–}}</ref> The ancestry has also been studied through ''"[[genealogies]]"''; lists of names in various manuscripts. Ancestries include the [[Ancestry of the kings of Wessex]] and the [[Ancestry of the kings of Mercia]]. Scholarly analysis suggests the early part of some versions are largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. They provides lines of names stretching from [[Godulf Geoting]], presumably ruler of a [[Realm|Kingdom]] before [[Woden]] to [[Eanfrith of Bernicia|Eanfrith]], [[Aldfrið]] or [[Pybba]] and onwards. They have variations in a number of [[Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies]].<ref name="Merry)1927">Stenton, F. M. (Frank Merry), "Lindsey and its Kings", ''Essays presented to Reginald Lane Poole'', 1927, pp. 136-150, reprinted in ''Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton : Edited by Doris Mary Stenton'', Oxford, 1970, pp. 127-137 [http://books.google.com/books?id=v1hMck3rF-MC&pg=PA127]</ref><ref>Zaluckyj, Sarah & Feryok, Marge. ''Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England'' (2001) ISBN 1-873827-62-8</ref><ref name="FulkBjork2008">{{cite book|author1=Robert Dennis Fulk|author2=Robert E. Bjork|author3=John D. Niles|title=Klaeber's Beowulf: And the Fighting at Finnsburg|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8ek3p6ILv8wC&pg=PA292|accessdate=18 November 2012|date=5 April 2008|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-9567-1|pages=292–}}</ref>
[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] wrote a legendary [[chronology]] of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the [[Historia Regum Britanniae]] c. 1136 CE.<ref name="Asaph)Reeve2007">{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)|author2=Michael D. Reeve|author3=Neil Wright|title=The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ryl4gq-IoMgC&pg=PA68|accessdate=20 November 2012|year=2007|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-206-5|pages=68–}}</ref> The ancestry has also been studied through ''"[[genealogies]]"''; lists of names in various manuscripts. Ancestries include the [[Ancestry of the kings of Wessex]] and the [[Ancestry of the kings of Mercia]]. Scholarly analysis suggests the early part of some versions are largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. They provides lines of names stretching from [[Godulf Geoting]], presumably ruler of a [[Realm|Kingdom]] before [[Woden]] to [[Eanfrith of Bernicia|Eanfrith]], [[Aldfrið]] or [[Pybba]] and onwards. They have variations in a number of [[Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies]].<ref name="Merry)1927">Stenton, F. M. (Frank Merry), "Lindsey and its Kings", ''Essays presented to Reginald Lane Poole'', 1927, pp. 136-150, reprinted in ''Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton : Edited by Doris Mary Stenton'', Oxford, 1970, pp. 127-137 [http://books.google.com/books?id=v1hMck3rF-MC&pg=PA127]</ref><ref>Zaluckyj, Sarah & Feryok, Marge. ''Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England'' (2001) ISBN 1-873827-62-8</ref><ref name="FulkBjork2008">{{cite book|author1=Robert Dennis Fulk|author2=Robert E. Bjork|author3=John D. Niles|title=Klaeber's Beowulf: And the Fighting at Finnsburg|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8ek3p6ILv8wC&pg=PA292|accessdate=18 November 2012|date=5 April 2008|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-9567-1|pages=292–}}</ref>

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The Ancestry of the kings of Britain has long attracted historians' interest because the monarchs of Britain trace their lineage from them.[1] An early king on record outside of the legendary genealogies is called Creoda or Cretta,[2] mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, of the Anglian collection, entry 519[3] and 855 B, C, and D.[4] Creoda has been deleted from some of the genealogies.[5]

Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote a legendary chronology of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136 CE.[6] The ancestry has also been studied through "genealogies"; lists of names in various manuscripts. Ancestries include the Ancestry of the kings of Wessex and the Ancestry of the kings of Mercia. Scholarly analysis suggests the early part of some versions are largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. They provides lines of names stretching from Godulf Geoting, presumably ruler of a Kingdom before Woden to Eanfrith, Aldfrið or Pybba and onwards. They have variations in a number of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies.[7][8][9]

Manuscripts include references to names from the Kingdom of Lindsey, a settlement in the northeast of Britain that rose to prominence in the early years of settlement by the Angles. Little is known of the Kingdom and the people are not recorded participating in the wars of the seventh and eighth centuries.[7]

The list of names in the different genealogies give the following pedigrees:

      Legendary kings before Woden or Weothulgeot
      Semi-Legendary kings after Woden or Weothulgeot

Vespasian B Vi Genealogia Lindisfarorum Tiberius B v Biographical notes
Godulf Geoting Compare the Geats who are frequently mentioned in Beowulf's story.
Finn Goduulfing Ancient pedigree.
Frioðulf Finning
Frealaf Frioðulfing
Uuoden Frealafing
Uinta Wodning
Cretta Uinting
Cueldgils Cretting
Cædbæd Cueldgilsing
Bubba Cadbæding
Beda Bubbing Geot ?
Biscop Beding Godulf ?
Eanferð Biscoping Finn ?
Eatta Eanferðing Frioðulf ?
Alfreið Eatting Frealaf ?
Woden or Weothulgeot Woden or Weothulgeot Woden or Weothulgeot Compare Woden, the god (pictured).
Wihtlaeg Winta - Compare Winteringham (the homestead of Winta's people). ? Ancient pedigree.
Wermund Cretta ?
Offa Cuelgils ?
Angeltheow Caedbaed ?
Eomer Bubba Eamer Different spelling in Anglian collection manuscripts.
Icel Beda ?
Cnebba Biscop ?
Cynewald Eanferð ?
Creoda Eatta ?
Pybba Aldfrið or Ealdfrith ?

See also

References

  1. ^ Peter (of Ickham) (1885). The Genealogy of the Kings of Britain: From Brutus to the Death of Alfred, Tr. from a Norman-French Ms. in the Library If Trinity College, Cambridge. Priv. Print. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  2. ^ Thomas A. Bredehoft (2001). Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. University of Toronto Press. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-0-8020-4850-9. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  3. ^ Gordon J. Copley (1954). The conquest of Wessex in the sixth century. Phoenix House. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  4. ^ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5. Retrieved 20 November 2012. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ The Genealogist, p. 87. The Association. 2001. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  6. ^ Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph); Michael D. Reeve; Neil Wright (2007). The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae). Boydell & Brewer. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-1-84383-206-5. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  7. ^ a b Stenton, F. M. (Frank Merry), "Lindsey and its Kings", Essays presented to Reginald Lane Poole, 1927, pp. 136-150, reprinted in Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton : Edited by Doris Mary Stenton, Oxford, 1970, pp. 127-137 [1]
  8. ^ Zaluckyj, Sarah & Feryok, Marge. Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England (2001) ISBN 1-873827-62-8
  9. ^ Robert Dennis Fulk; Robert E. Bjork; John D. Niles (5 April 2008). Klaeber's Beowulf: And the Fighting at Finnsburg. University of Toronto Press. pp. 292–. ISBN 978-0-8020-9567-1. Retrieved 18 November 2012.

Genealogia Lindisfarorum in Chronicon ex chronicis

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