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| The '''Ancestry of the kings of Britain''' has long attracted historians' interest because the ]s of ] 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> It includes the ] and the ]. Yet scholarly analysis suggests the early part of it is largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. It provides a line of names stretching from ], presumably ruler of a ] before ] to ], ] or ]. It has variations in a number of ].<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 </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> | The '''Ancestry of the kings of Britain''' has long attracted historians' interest because the ]s of ] 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> It includes the ] and the ]. Yet scholarly analysis suggests the early part of it is largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. It provides a line of names stretching from ], presumably ruler of a ] before ] to ], ] or ]. It has variations in a number of ].<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 </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> | ||
| ] wrote a legendary ] of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the ] 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 ] of lists of names in various manuscripts including some about the ], a settlement in the northeast of Britain that rose to prominence in the early years of settlement by the ]s. Little is known of the Kingdom and the people are not recorded participating in the wars of the seventh and eighth centuries. The first ] generally regarded by ] to have been real is ], who led a ] into ] and became ].<ref name="Hughes2007">{{cite book|author=David Hughes|title=The British Chronicles, VOLUME 1 ONLY|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QnDtohOe8-QC&pg=PA246|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-4490-6|pages=246–}}</ref><ref name="Merry)1927"/> | ] wrote a legendary ] of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the ] 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 ] of lists of names in various manuscripts including some about the ], a settlement in the northeast of Britain that rose to prominence in the early years of settlement by the ]s. Little is known of the Kingdom and the people are not recorded participating in the wars of the seventh and eighth centuries. The first ] generally regarded by ] to have been real is ], who led a ] into ] and became ].<ref name="Hughes2007">{{cite book|author=David Hughes|title=The British Chronicles, VOLUME 1 ONLY|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QnDtohOe8-QC&pg=PA246|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-4490-6|pages=246–}}</ref><ref name="Merry)1927"/> It has a close connection with ] in the ].<ref name="Inc2000">{{cite book|author=Ancestry Inc|title=Ancestry magazine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RtpYxPJXAH0C&pg=PA18|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=2000-11 - 2000-12|publisher=Ancestry Inc|pages=18–|id={{ISSN|1075475X}}}}</ref> | ||
| The ancestry dates back to times when, as ] said, ''"all the ]s dye their bodies with ], which produces a ] colour, and this gives them a more terrifying appearance in battle"''.<ref name="ChurchillK.G.2011">{{cite book|author1=Winston Churchill|author2=Sir Winston S Churchill, K.G.|author3=Christopher Lee|title=A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LqP6n19YYE0C|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=1 May 2011|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|isbn=978-1-61608-240-6}}</ref> | The ancestry dates back to times when, as ] said, ''"all the ]s dye their bodies with ], which produces a ] colour, and this gives them a more terrifying appearance in battle"''.<ref name="ChurchillK.G.2011">{{cite book|author1=Winston Churchill|author2=Sir Winston S Churchill, K.G.|author3=Christopher Lee|title=A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LqP6n19YYE0C|accessdate=20 November 2012|date=1 May 2011|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|isbn=978-1-61608-240-6}}</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. It includes the Ancestry of the kings of Wessex and the Ancestry of the kings of Mercia. Yet scholarly analysis suggests the early part of it is largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. It provides a line of names stretching from Godulf Geoting, presumably ruler of a Kingdom before Woden to Eanfrith, Aldfrið or Pybba. It has variations in a number of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies.
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote a legendary chronology of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136 CE. The ancestry has also been studied through genealogies of lists of names in various manuscripts including some about 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. The first king generally regarded by history to have been real is Cretta, who led a migration into Mercia and became Creoda. It has a close connection with ancestry in the United States of America.
The ancestry dates back to times when, as Winston Churchill said, "all the Britons dye their bodies with woad, which produces a blue colour, and this gives them a more terrifying appearance in battle".
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
- 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.
- ^ 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
- Zaluckyj, Sarah & Feryok, Marge. Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England (2001) ISBN 1-873827-62-8
- 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.
- 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.
- David Hughes (1 January 2007). The British Chronicles, VOLUME 1 ONLY. Heritage Books. pp. 246–. ISBN 978-0-7884-4490-6. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- Ancestry Inc (2000-11 - 2000-12). Ancestry magazine. Ancestry Inc. pp. 18–. ISSN 1075475X Parameter error in {{issn}}: Invalid ISSN.. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Winston Churchill; Sir Winston S Churchill, K.G.; Christopher Lee (1 May 2011). A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61608-240-6. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
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