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	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wessex
		Founded in AD 519 by the Gewissae (a Saxon tribe descended from Gewis), Cerdic's West Saxon kingdom seems initially to have been forged from earlier Saxons living in the area.
		The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that when he and the Gewissae landed in 495 a Saxon settlement existed around Cerdicesora and that Cerdic, "within about six years of [his] coming...
		The Gewissae (Saxons with possibly some Jutish companions) land on the south coast at Cerdices ora under the leadership of their chief, Cerdic, and begin to carve their own territory out of the Jutish/Saxon and Briton territories there.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandWessex.htm (699 words)

	Christian Network
		How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation.
		Then the executioner came, and they joyfully underwent the temporal death, through which they did not doubt they were to pass to the life of the soul, which is everlasting.
		The island is situated opposite the borders of the South Saxons and the Gewissae, being separated from it by a sea, three miles wide, which is called Solvente.
	www.cnetwork.co.uk /ven74.html (279 words)

	WISE Desc-Page 1
		This Scottish variant of Arms most likely promulgated up to medieval times from prominent Eastern Anglo-Saxon chieftains and warriors who descended from the ancient Saxon Kingdoms, and who migrated and settled in the ancient Essex, Middlesex, and Sussex areas of what became present-day England.
		In common is that the WYSE and WYSEMAN Anglo-Saxons of Scotland used the same family motto "He is wise who is wise of God" and near identical Arms emblazoned with charges in numbers of three, throughout lower Scotland, and in Greston, York and Essex, England.
		Should there be an earlier variants of the WYSE or WYSEMAN Arms than the pre-500 A.D. eastern Anglo-Saxon (Jute) Kingdoms and tribes of Gewissae, Hwicce, Isle of Thane, Kent, and Sussex, they have not yet been found -- and most likely do not prevail today.
	personal.lig.bellsouth.net /j/f/jfwise/wise01.htm (1143 words)

	de Heptarchie Heptarchy is the name historians...
		This term, heptarchy, is Greek for "seven rulers", referring to the fact that between the two years mentioned above it was thought that England was divided into seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex.
		Further, research has shown that a number of political divisions played a far more important role than were earlier thought; these kingdoms include Lindsey, the Hwicce, Magonsaete, Surrey, the Wihtware or inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, the Middle Angles, and the Gewissae.
		In short, this term has been considered unsatisfactory since the early twentieth century, and many historians have ceased using it, feeling it does not adequately describe the period it was meant to apply to.
	www.geodatabase.de /heptarchy (266 words)

	Caer Guorthigirn, Salisbury, identified by William of Worcester as Vortigern's castle.
		Recent thoughts on this subject see the West Saxons as having been of very mixed origin, only to be 'germanised' later when the Anglo-Saxon culture had taken over England.
		Another possibility, referred to above, is that the Germano-British kingdom of the Gewissae, pushed south by Mercia, found an existing Jutish origin-legend in this area, related to the Jutes of Kent.
		As the Gewissae (as the West Saxons were known before king Alfred) had no real West Saxon origin-legend of their own, we think they incorporated their own kings into the existing Jutish one.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artcit/caersalis.htm (1411 words)

	EBK on Britannia: Ancestry of Eudaf Hen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, there are other indications that they were the British who lived further to the West.
		The word "Gewissae" may be related to Ewyas, the northern region of Gwent, and, possibly, to the Hwicce, an apparently Saxon people who lived in Gloucestershire.
		There are tales of Eudaf holding court at Caer Segeint (Caernarfon), but this was probably due to associations with his son-in-law,
	www.britannia.com /history/ebk/gene/conanc.html (415 words)

	Gwent, land ruled by Vortigern
		This name has caused some confusion due to an obvious dual meaning or a later misidentification.
		This Claudius was reputed to have married his legendary daughter Gewissa to the British king Arviragus.
		In short, Gwent probably belonged to the territory of Gloucester, at least it was once claimed to have been.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgra/gwent.htm (1478 words)

	EBK: Map of Britain in AD 550 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The beginnings of the Kingdom of Essex are to be seen, North of the Thames.
		Wessex joins with the Gewissae of the Upper Thames Valley, descendants of Roman mercenaries of Germanic origin [Green].
		This divides the Kingdom of the old Atrebatic territory in two, and a new British dynasty probably establishes control of Caer-Baddan (Bath) [Tan].
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /maps/550_kingdoms.html (235 words)

	Cerdic - the Celt? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cerdic was a direct descendant of Oden and Freya, Saxon conquerors and later gods.
		Cerdic's father was Elesa, son of Esla, but Cerdic's mother's name is not known to me. Western Jutland was the home of the Gewissae, a Saxon tribe of Jutes descended from Gewis, who was also the ancestor of Vortigern, the British king who invited the Saxon Hengist to Britain, with unfortunate results.
		This was a time of transition following the defeat of Rome by the Celts, when tribes once loosely classified as Celts by the Romans were beginning to migrate, expand and form larger units in the early stages of nation-building.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/198637 (883 words)

	Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 161
		However, there are other indications that they were theBritish who lived further to the West.
		The word 'Gewissae' may be relatedto Ewyas, the northern region of Gwent, and, possibly, to the Hwicce, anapparently Saxon people who lived in Gloucestershire.
		There are tales of Eudaf holding court at Caer Segeint (Caernarfon), butthis was probably due to associations with his son-in-law, the EmperorMagnus Maximus.
	www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p161.htm (2668 words)

	Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (v.iv.xv) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province
		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 document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College,
	www.ccel.org /ccel/bede/history.v.iv.xv.html?bcb=0 (122 words)

	Northvegr - Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
		Thus, after all the provinces of the island of Britain had embraced the faith of Christ, the Isle of Wight also received the same; yet being under the affliction of foreign subjection, no man there received the ministry, or rank of a bishop, before Daniel, who is now bishop of the West Saxons.
		The island is situated opposite the division between the South Saxons and the Gewissae, being separated from it by a sea, three miles over, which is called Solente.
		Please ask for permission before using material from this site.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/bede/025.php (1406 words)

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