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	Yorkshire - LoveToKnow 1911
		The wolds between Weighton and Flamborough Head were then mere sheep-walks, and the earliest settlements were chiefly confined to the rich valley of the lower Derwent, but the district around Weighton became the Deiran sacred ground, and Goodmanham is said to mark the site of a temple.
		Ella, the first king of Deira, extended his territory N. to the Wear, and his son Edwin completed the conquest of the district which was to become Yorkshire by the subjugation of Elmet, prompted thereto by vengeance on its king, Cerdic, for the murder of his uncle Hereric.
		In the 16th century limestone was dug in many parts of Elmet, and Huddlestone, Hesselwood and Tadcaster had famous quarries; Pontefract was famous for its liquorice, Aberford for its pins, Whitby for its jet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Yorkshire (6098 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cerdic could be the son of an anglo saxon man and a british woman and have a british name.
		Elmet for example, appears to have remained 'british' for a few centuries, even though it is east of the pennines and looks as if it remained essentially british for a long time after it's conquest in the early 7th cent.
		I am not disputing that Cerdic is a british name but there are a few historians who think he may well have had an anglo saxon father and british mother.
	community.channel4.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4476000511/m/801605747/p/38 (6481 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 597-627
		The Annales Cambriae record the death of a Cerdic in 616, just before they record Edwin's accession: this may be Cerdic of Elmet, although it need not be, and if it is someone else then the defeat of Cerdic of Elmet could be redated to 616?633.
		Bede does not mention the conquest of Elmet, though he does note that Edwin's nephew Hereric was poisoned while living in exile under the British king Cerdic, and this might have given Edwin an excuse for the war (HE, iv.23).
		Elmet (Elfed in Welsh) was near modern-day Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and sent some warriors to the battle at Catraeth commemorated in the Gododdin (see entry on 570).
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet?do=seek&query=597-627 (6679 words)

	Cerdic
		Cerdic was the name of more than one King in English history:
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	en.explicatus.org /wiki/Cerdic (62 words)

	Touring Elmet
		Elmet is a very interesting area for anyone with a passion for the past.
		Elmet was one of the thirteen kingdoms of the North - Y Gogledd, a mainly Celtic Christian region - and, with varying success, it held out against the pagan English for two hundred years.
		The last king of Elmet was called Cerdic and was knocked from his throne by Edwin of Northumbria around 625 AD, it then becoming part of blossoming England.
	www.oldtykes.co.uk /elmetours.htm (17943 words)

	Arthur the King
		Another Northern British Arthwys was the son of Masgwid Gloff, probably a King of the Elmet region of modern West Yorkshire.
		The name Cerdic is Celtic, not Germanic, and he may well have been Ceredig son of Cunedda Wledig.
		Arthur's battles as recorded in Nennius may be identified with Cerdic's battles in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesBritain/BritishArthurTheKing.htm (1596 words)

	The Heroic Age: The Forum/GODODIN Revisited
		Lack of corroborative evidence likewise renders the idea that the British warlord Gwallawg was the king of Elmet a tenuous hypothesis, yet Koch and many other scholars continue to regard it as a historical fact.
		The line of poetry was, however, regarded as doubtful by Kenneth Jackson (1963:31) while it may be noted that the name Ceretic/Cerdic was hardly uncommon in the sixth and seventh centuries.
		Nor is it accurate to state that Elmet lay in "what is now South Yorkshire" (Koch 1997:xxiii): much of the kingdom, in so far as its extent can be guessed, clearly lay in what is now the county of West Yorkshire (Jones 1975).
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/1/hatf.htm (2318 words)

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		In 495, Cerdic and Cynric led another kindred horde to the south-western shore, and made the first settlement of the West Saxons, or Wessex.
		The so-called Nennius tells us that Elmet in Yorkshire, long an intrusive Welsh principality, was not subdued by the English till the reign of Eadwine of Northumbria; when, we learn, the Northumbrian prince "seized Elmet, and expelled Cerdic its king:" but nothing is said as to any extermination of its people.
		As Bæda incidentally mentions this Cerdic, "king of the Britons," Nennius may probably be trusted upon the point.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16790/16790-8.txt (19396 words)

	Timeline of the Early British Kingdoms 410 AD-598 AD
		The British of the Isle of Wight are defeated by King Cerdic of Wessex at the Battle of Carisbrooke.
		The Northern British Alliance (North Rheged, Strathclyde, Bryneich and Elmet) lays siege to King Hussa of Bernicia and almost exterminates the Northumbrians from Northern Britain.
		Prince Elffin of North Rheged is simultaneously attacked by King Gwallawc Marchawc Trin of Elmet.
	www.britannia.com /history/ebk/ebktime1.html (2826 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		“(3.) The names Cerdic, Ceawlin and Caedwalla, all in the genealogy of the West Saxon kings, are apparently British: R. Coates, `On Some Controversy surrounding Gewissae/Gewissei, Cerdic and Ceawlin' Nomina, xiii (1989-90), 1-11.
		Although Cerdic is british, I think my Kerdic must be an error as I can't find anyone who has even heard of him, his son or grandson is Cynric which is very probably germanic.
		Even if the name ‘Cynric’ is Anglo-Saxon, the fact that he was either the son, or grandson, of Cerdic, must mean that he was of British (or part British) descent, and he obviously maintained the tradition of British names by naming his son ‘Ceawlin’, which according to the above references is an attested British name.
	community.channel4.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4476000511/m/801605747/p/37 (5122 words)

	GENUKI: A History of Yorkshire, 1892: Part 4.
		Their success excited the ambition and cupidity of the neighbouring tribes, and in 477, Ella the Saxon, with a host of his countrymen, landed on the island of Selsey, and, after an arduous struggle, established the kingdom of Sussex.
		Another Saxon immigration took place about the year 495, under Cerdic and Cyric, and, after many sanguinary battles, effected a settlement in the district extending from Surrey to the confines of Cornwell, which was called from its position the kingdom of Wessex, or West Saxons.
		Among his first conquests were the two small kingdoms of Loidis and Elmet, of which the Britons appear to have retained possession.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/Misc/Descriptions/YKS/YKSHistory5.html (6636 words)

	Notes for ~Cerdic "the Saxon" "King" of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)*
		Cerdic was remembered in later Anglo-Saxon tradition as the first
		example, the king Cerdic of the British kingdom of Elmet in the early
		'his kin goes back to Cerdic' was a regular boast of the chroniclerswho
	mariah.stonemarche.org /famfiles/nti02737.htm (247 words)

	Northvegr - Angliad
		Two leaders came into Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, in five ships, at Cerdices ora, fighting with the Britons on the same day.
		Cerdic slew the British king Natanleod at Charford, and took from him the land of Netley.
		Cerdic was the son of Elesa, son of Gewis, son of Wig, whose sister married Offa of Angeln, son of Freawine whom Eadgils slew, son of Frithugar, son of Brand, son of Bældæg, son of Woden.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/angliad/010.php (1182 words)

	Darkages
		In 495 AD we are told that Cerdic and his son Cynric landed at Cerdicesora (possibly Christchurch harbour) and fought with the Welsh (translated as foreigner in Saxon), or Britons.
		It must be noted that the Chronicle was compiled and edited at a later time and reflects a viewpoint that the rulers of Wessex wished their audience to accept, in short, the legitimacy of Cerdic as the father of the kingdom of Wessex.
		In fact the name Cerdic is not even Saxon, but British, possibly the result of a marriage between a Saxon warlord and a local Princess, where the Celtic tradition passed names through the female line.
	www.egbert.co.uk /darkages.html (3678 words)

	The Heroic Age: What's in a name?
		As well as Hengist and Horsa in Kent, and Ida in 'Northumbria', it tells of Ælle, first leader of the South Saxons, Cerdic, first leader of the West Saxons, Port, Bieda and Mægla, first leaders of the Meonwara of Hampshire and Stuf and Wihtgar, first leaders of the Wihtwara of the Isle of Wight.
		Port is a transparently concocted eponym for Portsmouth, his supposed landing place, while the well-known problem of Cerdic and various members of his progeny is that they have British names.
		Cerdic bears the same name as the British tyrant addressed by St Patrick as well as the last British king of Elmet in South Yorkshire.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/4/Matthews.html (5318 words)

	WHY
		At that time, the leader of Elmet was Gwallawg ap Lleenawg, although the only identifiably-named warrior from Elmet mentioned by Aneirin is Madog Elfed, described as 'adwythig sgwydog', or a deadly shield-bearer (see stanza above).
		Elmet itself fell to Edwin of Northumbria, who defeated Gwallawg's son, Ceredig, around 617 CE.
		From that time on, much of the upper classes of Elmet - the nobility, clergy, druids, bards, and so forth - would have moved westwards, particularly into North Wales, much as their compatriots from Strathclyde were forced to do in the centuries to come.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /music/Info/CMJ/Conf/elfed.htm (7399 words)

	Cerdic - King Arthur Gamecube Cheats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cerdic MacAoidh Blazon: Argent, an ounce rampant queue forchy sable spotted Or on a chief azure three increscents Or.
		Cerdic and Cynric, two Saxon princes, came to Britain in 495, Cerdic was given an ancestry that took him back to Woden, the chief Anglo-Saxon god.
		This year Cerdic and Cynric undertook the government of the West-Saxons; This year Cerdic and Cynric fought with the Britons in the place that is called
	supersearching.com /?q=cerdic (494 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Anglo-Saxon Britain, by Grant Allen, B.A.
		Moreover, a double story is told in the Chronicle as to the original colonisation of Wessex; the first attributing the conquest to Cerdic and Cynric, and the second to Stuf and Wihtgar.
		A hundred years later, the Welsh poems seem to say, Ida "the flame-bearer," fought his way down from a petty principality on the Forth, and occupied the whole Northumbrian coast, in spite of the stubborn guerilla warfare of the despairing provincials.
		[1] Cerdic is apparently a British rather than an English name, since Bæda mentions a certain "Cerdic, rex Brettonum." This may have been a Caradoc.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/6/7/9/16790/16790-h/16790-h.htm (18285 words)

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		This coast was guarded by a fortress which occupied the spot now called Pevensey, the future landing-place of the Norman Conqueror; and the fall of this fortress of Anderida in 491 established the kingdom of the South-Saxons.
		It seems probable that the English had hitherto known nothing of kings in their own fatherland, where each tribe was satisfied in peace time with the customary government of village-reeve and hundred-reeve and ealdonnan, while it gathered at fighting times under war leaders whom it chose for each campaign.
		To the west his arms crushed the long resistance of Elmet, the district about Leeds; he was master of Chester, and the fleet he equipped there subdued the isles of Anglesea and Man. South of the Humber he was owned as overlord by the five English states of Mid-Britain.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/0/3/17037/17037-8.txt (21483 words)

	anglo saxon settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elmet was a Celtic/Romano British (Welsh) kingdom its capital was at Leeds (Loidus), Elmete now lost its independence.
		Selby and Elmet area history (Yorkshire) Some Anglian settlement may have occured after this time,when Midgley was established as a settlement site to the west of the region.
		It is believed that Northumbrian kings may have established a palace at Doncaster which was later destroyed by the Danes.The Roman roads were still used for the movement of armies, here the road from Lincoln to York was utilised near Doncaster.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/anglosaxons.html (5130 words)

	Forrester's Weblog & Profile \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Forrester's Weblog & Profile
		The Hwicce, may have been a coalition of Germanic adventurers, and British "quisling" types, co operating with them.This is not as far fetched as it may sound.
		Cerdic, founder of the Royal House of Wessex, has a British name, whilst Cenwealh, a later King, has a name meaning "Bold Welshman".
		From then on, the issue is a power struggle between the separate English Kingdoms, with the British forced back well beyond the Severn (except for the odd Kingdom of Elmet in modern Yorkshire).
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /user/5256/weblog/0/36552 (1206 words)

	Imperium Total War -> Preview January 26th: Dyfneint
		A northern coalition, led by Urien Rheged, was next to be destroyed as the Angles conquered lands in Northern Britain, when the king Morcant Bulc of Bryneich, once Urien's ally, order the assassination of Urien, this leading to the dissolution of the alliance and the fall of Rheged.
		Around 620 AD, Ceretic the king of Elmet was beaten by the rising Northumbrian power.
		Cerdic of Wessex had already sized a little part of Dyfneint, around Venta Belgarum, modern Winchester, and Ynys Weith.
	s10.invisionfree.com /Imperium_Total_War/index.php?showtopic=1155 (4566 words)

	EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early British Kingdoms AD 410-495
		His kingdom is divided between his sons: Meirchion Gul retains the central Rheged homeland and Masgwid Gloff becomes King of Elmet.
		He is succeeded by his son, Arthwys, who probably takes the opportunity to seize the Peak District from Elmet.
		c.495 - The Germanic King Cerdic and his son, Cynric, land somewhere on the south coast, probably near the Hampshire-Dorset border.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /kingdoms/410.html (1681 words)

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		The word is unrecorded as a personal name before the end of the sixth and early seventh century, when several "Arthurs" are known.
		These include:Artair son of Aidan,a prince of Scottish Dalriada; "Arthur son of Bicor the Briton" from an Irish Annal; Arthur ap Pedr of Dyfed; Artuis of the Pennines Kingdom; Artuis of Elmet; and Arthwys ap Meurig of Gwent.
		John and Joseph Rudmin theorize that Caradoc is the same as Cerdic of Wessex, and a prototype of Arthur.
	www.angelfire.com /md/devere/urse.html (3304 words)

	Imperium Total War -> Briton units
		The most famous king of Elmet was Gwallawc map Llenweag, also known as 'Marchawc Trin', the Battle Horse.
		After the Roman empire left Britain's shores some of their soldiery remained as mercenaries, or native Britons adopted fighting styles practised by their former garrisons, thus the Marca Saethwyr were born: adopting the horse-archer technique of the Sarmatians.
		The men of Elmet (modern day Leeds and surrounding area), under the kingship of Gwallawc map Llenweag, known as the 'battle horse', employed such horse-archers in their powerful cavalry-based armies.
	s10.invisionfree.com /Imperium_Total_War/index.php?showtopic=261 (5403 words)

	Richard Denning's DarkAge Site
		Elmet is a small British Kingdom along the Eastern side of the Penines.
		Historically it surived longer than most other British Kingdoms in England and this is reflected in some modern town names having "in Elmet" in the title.
		Lindsey like Elmet is a small British Kingdom - but this one did not survive as long as its nieghbour.
	www.jjevon.demon.co.uk /darkage/gaz.htm (2625 words)

	The Battle of Winwaedfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He placed no obstacle in the way of its propagation in Middle Anglia, where four missionaries, three of them English and one Irish, were already at work before his death.
		Between these two expanding nations was the small Kingdom of Elmet.
		This was incorporated into Northumbria by Edwin, when he expelled Cerdic, its last British king.
	www.hjsmith.clara.co.uk /0104.htm (778 words)

	Basileus' Interference Timeline - Alternate History Discussion Board
		The Western Roman Empire falls to the hand of the Herul Odovacar, who defeats and kills Orestes at Papia/Ticinum and deposes his son Romulus, then formally remits the authority of the Roman West to Constantinople, which names him a "patrician;" but Italy is de facto under the heel of the barbarian confederation headed by Odovacar.
		Cerdic, a Celto-Saxon of mixed blood and former ally of king Arthur, founds on the remains of the Celtic local kingdom of Guinntguich (Winchester area) the Kingdom of the Western Saxons (Wessex) and a most important dynasty in Britain’s history
		King Cerdic’s West Saxons crush the Celts of the isle of Wight at the battle of Carisbrooke.
	alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=26882 (15458 words)

	EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early British Kingdoms AD 496-599
		The Britons, under the command of the "war leader" Arthur, defeat the Saxons, under King Esla of Bernicia and probably Cerdic of Wessex.
		508 - King Cerdic of Wessex begins to move inland and defeats British king, Nudd-Lludd (Natanleod), at the Battle of Netley.
		519 - The Kingdom of the Wessex is founded with Cerdic, a leader probably of mixed Saxo-Celtic birth.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /kingdoms/496.html (2006 words)

	Taliesin
		Another Taliesin poem is for Gwallawg ap Lleennawg, ruler of Elmet, another North British kingdom centered on Leeds.
		Gwallawg was the father of the Ceredic (Cerdic) expelled from his kingdom by Edwin of Deira in the early seventh century.
		This lends additional credibility to the placing of the historical personage in the latter part of the sixth century.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/poetry/taliesin/index.htm (1387 words)

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