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 Caedwalla - Wikipedia
Caedwalla was afkomstig uit een koninklijk geslacht in Wessex, maar was uit zijn gebied verdreven.
In 685 wist Caedwalla het koningschap in Wessex in handen te krijgen.
In Kent was een opstand uitgebroken, waarbij Mul gedood was, en Caedwalla trok opnieuw op tegen Kent om deze neer te slaan.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caedwalla   (280 words)

  
 The Adventure of the Milefort
Caedwalla asks the characters to accompany him to overcome this chieftain and regain his heirloom.
Caedwalla is incensed, but makes his Hospitality vs Love (Family) check and so keeps his peace.
Caedwalla shouts that the leader of the bandits is a Nithing and that all who serve such a one are worse than the lick-spittles of a dog.
users.tpg.com.au /tfergus/the_adventure_of_the_bequest.htm   (3470 words)

  
 Caedwalla of Wessex - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Caedwalla (* around 659, 20 April 689) was from 685 to 688 king of Wessex.
Caedwalla was related the son of Cenberht and with the king house of Wessex, however he had been banished from the country and pierced themselves as a young more independently “being lord”, whereby he broke in in Sussex and killed the there king Aethelwalh, whose country he covered with war and plundering.
The anglo-saxon chronicle that it came soon thereafter to a revolt into Kent, in the Mul and the 12 its trailer burned are reported.
cleverpedia.com /Caedwalla_of_Wessex   (336 words)

  
 Page Title
It was here; secure across a single drawbridge, that the thane Caedwalla held court for the remainder of the hundred dispensing justice to the carls, freedmen and populace on his Lord s behalf.
For Caedwalla respect had long ago vanished; with the use his lord had made of his child, though there had been compensations, he held power while his Earl was absent.
Caedwalla came late to marriage with the nomadic lifestyle of the court.
www.newauthors.org.uk /page280.html   (1389 words)

  
 History - Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The main part of the current church was removed in 1864 and rebuilt in the centre of Selsey as St. Peter's church to serve the growing population of this seaside resort.
Caedwalla, an exiled son of king Centwine of Wessex, was befriended and helped by Wilfrid c681 and in 685 with a band of lawless followers Caedwalla ravaged Sussex and killed king
Andrew on the eastern shore of the harbour’ and it is presumed that the remains are next to vicarage of the present church of St. Thomas a Becket, Pagham.
www.wilfrid.com /history.htm   (1943 words)

  
 Raleigh North Carolina Ine of Wessex
He succeeded to the throne after the abdication of Caedwalla in 688.
Ine made peace with Kent in 694, when its king Wihtred gave him a sum in compensation for the death of Mul, brother of Caedwalla, who had been killed during a Kentish rebellion in 687.
Ine also sought to keep the South Saxons, conquered by Caedwalla in 686, in subjugation; around the year 692, he installed a kinsman of his, Nunna, as a client king over them.
www.raleigh-northcarolina.biz /ine_of_wessex.html   (455 words)

  
 EBK: St. Cuthburga, Abbess of Wimborne
St. Cuthburga was the daughter of Prince Coenred, a second-cousin of Caedwalla, King of Wessex.
Her brothers were St. Ine, King of Wessex and Ingild, great-great-grandfather of Egbert, the first King of the English, and direct ancestor of Alfred the Great.
Caedwalla became a Christian, in AD 688, and went to Rome to be baptised, resigning the throne to Ine.
www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/cuthburga.html   (421 words)

  
 Bloody King Linked To Saxon Beach Find (Caedwalla)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Discovery of the intricate gold decoration encrusted with garnets is regarded as being especially historically significant because it could have belonged to the king reputed to have put a quarter of the Island population to the sword in his attempt to convert them to Christianity.
Caedwalla then invaded the Isle of Wight, exterminated the inhabitants and settled it with his own followers from the mainland.
Since another page, also found in the same search, shows that Caedwalla only reigned for two years, the answer to your question is very likely "yes".
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1011689/posts   (2065 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 20
Saint Caedwalla, descendent of King Ceawlin of Wessex, became the King of the West Saxons in 685 or 686 by conquest.
Under Caedwalla, Wessex became a powerful kingdom, but in 688, he was converted by Saint Wilfrid, resigned his throne, and went to Rome for baptism.
Caedwalla, aged about 30, died a few days later still wearing the white robe of the neophyte, and was buried in Saint Peter's on April 20.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0420.htm   (2786 words)

  
 St. Ine
He was a son of the underking Cenred and ascended the West-Saxon throne in 688, a year before the death of his predecessor Caedwalla.
For thirty-seven years he ruled over a turbulent and war-like people, and by virtue of a varied genius was equally successful as a warrior and legislator.
With the exception of the Kentish laws this code is the earliest extant specimen of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and for that reason is of particular interest.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/i/ine,saint.html   (461 words)

  
 Raleigh North Carolina Kingdom of Kent
After his reign, however, the power of Kent began to decline: by the middle of the century, it seems to have been dominated by more powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
In 686, Kent was conquered by Caedwalla of Wessex, who established his brother Mul as king.
Within a year, Mul was killed in a Kentish revolt, but Caedwalla returned to devastate the kingdom with a second invasion.
www.raleigh-northcarolina.biz /kingdom_of_kent.html   (611 words)

  
 Mul of Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He was the brother of the West Saxon King Caedwalla, and when Caedwalla conquered Kent in August 686, he left Mul in charge as his puppet ruler.
However, the people of Kent revolted after only a few months and cornered Mul in a house, which they set ablaze, killing him.
These events invited the retaliatory wrath of Caedwalla, who returned to Kent on a rampage of destruction, but he too died shortly thereafter.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/mu/mul_of_kent.html   (115 words)

  
 Freshwater Bay Press
Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla HASLUCK, (1905-93), Governor-General of Australia, was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 1 April 1905.
He was the second child and son of Major E'thel Meernaa Caedwalla and Patience Eliza (Wooler) Hasluck.
As his parents served in the Salvation Army, his early childhood was spent in country towns in WA.
members.iinet.net.au /~hasluck/hasluck/pbio.html   (648 words)

  
 St. Mary's Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It was during this period, from approximately 680-686, that he carried out missionary work among the heathen population of Sussex and the Island.
Of course, they were hard and brutal days, Wilfrid's missionary activity seems to have gone hand-in-glove with the conquest of the Island by Caedwalla, King of Wessex the West Saxons.
Also recorded is that three quarters of the population were put to death - whether because they opposed Caedwalla or because they refused to be converted to Christianity is not certain!
www.brading.org /stmary1.html   (573 words)

  
 Late Cerdic Dynasty: 2 - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
It is likely that Centwine ended his reign by abdicating and entering the priesthood.
Caedwalla, King of the West Saxons from 685-688, conquered most of the South of England, including Wessex, Sussex and Kent.
After a successful career as a conqueror, Caedwalla suddenly abdicated in 686 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome.
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Late-Cerdic-Dynasty-2-223950.html   (743 words)

  
 ST. SERGIUS
Noted for his devotion to the martyrs, he often said Mass in the catacombs.
In 688 Caedwalla, the mighty king of the West Saxons, came a pilgrim to Rome seeking baptism from the Pope.
St. Willibrord, an Anglo-Saxon monk, came to seek the Pope's blessing on a mission to the Frisians.
www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp84.htm   (563 words)

  
 Amberley Castle - England
The lands where the castle stands were given by the Saxon King Caedwalla to St. Wilfred, first Bishop of Selsey, in 672.
At some time later they became the property of the See of Chichester and in the 12th Century Bishop Luffa built the manor house, the oldest part of the castle.
Today the castle is open as a luxurious restaurant and hotel.
www.allcastles.com /amberley.htm   (131 words)

  
 Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
The mighty battlements afford weald and downland views of unrivalled beauty and the buildings' very antiquity lends a magical flavour of history to the elegantly appointed public rooms.
The lands of "Amberley" where the castle stands were given by the Saxon King Caedwalla to St Wilfred, 1st Bishop of Selsey, in 672.
They later became the property of the See of Chichester and in the 12th century Bishop Luffa built the Manor house, the oldest part of the castle.
www.camelotintl.com /heritage/castles/eastern/amber.html   (363 words)

  
 Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation.
IN the meantime, Caedwalla,a young man of great vigour, of the royal race of the Gewissae,an exile from his country, came with an army, slew Ethelwalch,and wasted that province with cruel slaughter and devastation; but he was soon expelled by Berthun and Andhun, the king’s ealdormen, who held in succession the government of the province.
This book has been accessed more than 134335 times since June 1, 2005.
www.ccel.org /ccel/bede/history.v.iv.xv.html?bcb=0   (86 words)

  
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We know that in the seventh century the pagan Jutes came under the political domination first of the South Saxons and then of the West Saxons, whose king Caedwalla "laid waste Kent and the Isle of Wight" in AD 686, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
The eighth century historian, the Venerable Bede, credits Caedwalla with converting the local Jutish population of the Isle of Wight to Christianity.
If this is the case, his conversion methods sound rather drastic!
www.treasurehunting.tv /uk2.htm   (609 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Books
Christianity has also had some unusual patron saints.
For instance, Blandina (for those falsely accused of cannibalism), Caedwalla of Wales (for serial killers, he killed the ‘pagan’ inhabitants of the Isle of Wight), and Clare of Assisi (for television, an image of the mass is believed to have appeared on her cell wall when she was too ill to attend the service).
The book also mentions about vegetarians of a Christian persuasion ("to support and encourage Christian vegetarians around the world").
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060604/spectrum/book7.htm   (441 words)

  
 A King Is Burnt to Death: What Caused It?
King Mul of Kent and twelve companions are burnt to death during a Kentish uprising.
His brother, King Caedwalla of Wessex ravages the kingdom in revenge.
When is a king not in charge of his kingdom?
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6546/83364   (487 words)

  
 Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England V
The same year, Lothere, king of Kent, died.
In the year 688, Caedwalla, king of the West Saxons, went to Rome from Britain.
In the year 697, Queen Ostritha was murdered by her own people, that is, the nobility of the Mercians.
www.ealdriht.org /bede5.html   (12143 words)

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