Cenred of Wessex
Cenred (also Cænred, Coenred, Cœnred, Coinred, fl to 670/676-705/717 ) was a regulus (small king) in Dorset in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex.
Life
Cenreds father was Ceolwald out of the house of Wessex. Cenred had four children: Sons Inc, († 728 in Rome) and Ingild († 718) and the two daughters Cwenburg and Cuthburg (fl. about 700-718; ∞ Aldfrith, King of Northumbria, abbess of Wimborne Abbey ).
After the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Cenwalh 672 died and his widow Seaxburg took over for a year rule. However, this representation seems to be simplistic. Bede, however, reported that the empire was divided between the sub- kings. It seems likely that after death Cenwalhs the " strong hand " of a dominant king was missing and the empire collapsed in this 10-year period of weakness in the lower realms, although Seaxburg was at least granted the right to supremacy.
Cenred was not called in the West-Saxon king lists, but it is occupied as a historical king by contemporary sources. From him comes the oldest surviving West Saxon Charter, which certifies a land grant in Dorset to Abbot Bectun (fl. 670/676 ) of Tisbury Abbey. Also known as Centwine ( 676-685 ) and Caedwalla ( 685-688 ) with which Cenred was distantly related, reunited the kingdom under their rule, he was able to maintain its position as subregulus ( Under King ). As Caedwalla in 688 resigned Cenreds son Ine was King of Wessex.
In the year 692 of the Wessex dependent Nothhelm ( 688/692-717/724 ) of Sussex transferred extensive lands in his possession for the " salvation of his soul " to his sister Nothgyth so that they could establish a monastery there. This document was led by Cenred, the title of Rex Westsaxonum ( King of the West Saxons ), and signed his son Ine who claimed no title as witnesses. The naming Cenreds before Ine, has his high position, possibly on an equal co-rule, go.
Between 688 and 694 Ine created a body of law on its emergence Cenred was heavily involved. A charter Ines from the year 699 mentions Cenred as the founder of Abingdon Abbey. Another gift from the period 705-717 20 hidas to Bishop Eadberht of Selsey, had to be countersigned by " high king" Ine, whose father Cenred and Watt ( 688/692-nach 700). Cenreds year of death is unknown.
The role Cenreds at Ines actions in Kent ( 694 ) and the campaigns against the British King Geraint of Dumnonia (710) Mercia ( 716) and Cornwall ( 722) is not known.
Swell
- Anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Online in Project Gutenberg (English)
- Æthelweard: Chronica
- Asher Vita Alfredi; The Life of King Alfred Online ( English) at Online Medieval and Classical Library