The following chart is a family tree

Family tree

A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...

 of the king

King

- Centers of population :* King, Ontario, CanadaIn USA:* King, Indiana* King, North Carolina* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin* King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin* King County, Washington- Moving-image works :Television:...

s of the House of Wessex

House of Wessex

The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, refers to the family that ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex. This House was in power from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex to the unification of the Kingdoms of England....

, a dynasty

Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers considered members of the same family. Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e.g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire...

 whose members were Kings of Wessex, and then, from Athelstan onwards, Kings of England.

Many of the links shown are disputed. Egbert

Egbert of Wessex

Egbert was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent...

, who became King of Wessex in 802, was probably of Kentish origin, and his ancestry back to Cerdic may have been invented to legitimate his claim to the throne of Wessex. The links tracing the ancestry of the Godwins

Ancestry of the Godwins

Very little is known for certain of the Ancestry of the Godwins. Even the Life of Edward the Confessor, commissioned by his wife Edith, who was Godwin's daughter, is surprisingly silent on the subject. In a section designed to eulogise her family, Godwin is described as "blessed in his ancestral...

 back to King Æthelred I are based on theories put forward by genealogists which are rejected by almost all historians.

In places the tree has been extended to show those kings of Wessex

Wessex

The Kingdom of Wessex or Kingdom of the West Saxons was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest...

 or England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 who were not actually of the house of Cerdic

Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic was probably the first King of Anglo-Saxon Wessex from 519 to 534, cited by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the founder of the kingdom of Wessex and ancestor of all its subsequent kings...

, although in every case these kings are related to the House of Wessex through marriage, and so can be included here. These include Canute the Great

Canute the Great

Cnut the Great , also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, historian Norman F...

 and his two sons.

For a continuation of this tree, please see English monarchs family tree

English monarchs family tree

This is the English monarchs' family tree for England from William the Conqueror to James I of England. It is split into three sections each containing a mapped image with links to articles in the English Wikipedia. The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the British...

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Links to persons named

• Aelfweard
  Ælfweard of Wessex
  Ælfweard was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.-Kingship and death:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that Ælfweard died soon after his father's death on 17 July 924 and that they were buried together at Winchester Cathedral...
  
  
• Aelgifu
  Aelgifu of Northampton
  Ælfgifu of Northampton was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of King Harold I of England . She served as regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035.-Family background:...
  
  
• Aethelbald
• Æthelburg
• Aethelfrith
• Aethelheard
  Aethelheard of Wessex
  Æthelheard , also spelled Ethelheard or Æþelheard, was King of Wessex from 726 to 740. There is an unreliable record of Æthelheard having been the brother-in-law of his predecessor, Ine, but his ancestry is unknown, perhaps making him the first King of Wessex not to be descended from Cynric by...
  
  
• Aethelhelm
• Æthelstan Ætheling
  Æthelstan Ætheling
  Æthelstan Ætheling , early or mid 980s to 25 June 1014, was the eldest son of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu and the heir apparent to the kingdom until his death. He made his first appearance as a witness to a charter of his father in 993...
  
  
• Æthelweard (historian)
• Aethelwold
• Aethelwulf
• Alfred Aetheling
• Alfred the Great
  Alfred the Great
  Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English monarch still to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself...
  
  
• Athelstan of Kent
• Athelstan
• Caedwalla
• Canute the Great
  Canute the Great
  Cnut the Great , also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, historian Norman F...
  
  
• Ceawlin
• Cedda
  Cedda
  Cedda was the second son of Cuthwine and consequently a member of the Wessex family. He was born c. 590 and his death date is unknown...
  
  
• Centwine
  Centwine of Wessex
  Centwine was King of Wessex from circa 676 to 685 or 686, although he was perhaps not the only king of the West Saxons at the time.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Centwine became king circa 676, succeeding Æscwine...
  
  
• Cenwalh
  Cenwalh of Wessex
  Cenwalh, also Cenwealh or Coenwalh, was King of Wessex from c. 643 to c. 645 and from c. 648 unto his death, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in c. 672.-Penda and Anna:...
  
  
• Ceol
• Ceolwald
  Ceolwald of Wessex
  Ceolwald of Wessex was a member of the House of Wessex . Although a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert, Ceolwald was never king. His birth and death dates are unknown....
  
  
• Ceolwulf
  Ceolwulf of Wessex
  Ceolwulf was King of Wessex from 597 to 611. He became king upon the death of his brother Ceol, because at that time Ceol's son Cynegils was too young to rule.Ceolwulf reigned for fourteen years and nothing is known of Wessex during his time as king....
  
  
• Cerdic
  Cerdic of Wessex
  Cerdic was probably the first King of Anglo-Saxon Wessex from 519 to 534, cited by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the founder of the kingdom of Wessex and ancestor of all its subsequent kings...
  
  
• Coenberht
• Coenred
• Cutha Cathwulf
  Cutha Cathwulf
  Cutha Cathwulf was the third son of Cuthwine and consequently a member of the House of Wessex. Although a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert, , Cathwulf was never king. He is said to have been born in c...
  
  
• Cuthburga
  Cuthburga
  Saint Cuthburh or Cuthburg was the first abbess of Wimborne Minster. She was the sister of Ine, King of Wessex and was married to the Northumbrian king Aldfrith....
  
  
• Cuthred
  Cuthred of Wessex
  Cuthred or Cuþræd was the King of Wessex from 740 until 756. He succeeded Æthelheard, his relative and possibly his brother....
  
  
• Cuthwine
  Cuthwine
  Cuthwine, born c. 565, was a member of the House of Wessex, son of Ceawlin of Wessex. After the deposition of his father Ceawlin from the throne of Wessex in 592 he did not inherit the throne which passed to his cousin, Ceol...
  
  
• Cwichelm
  Cwichelm of Wessex
  Cwichelm was an Anglo-Saxon king of the Gewisse, a people in the upper Thames area who later created the kingdom of Wessex. He is usually counted among the Kings of Wessex....
  
  
• Cynegils
• Cynric
• Eadwig
  Eadwig Ætheling
  Eadwig Ætheling was the fifth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready) and his first wife, Ælfgifu...
  
  
• Ealhswith
  Ealhswith
  Ealhswith or Ealswitha was the daughter of a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil, Ealdorman of the Gaini. She was married in 868 to Alfred the Great, before he became king of Wessex. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. -Life:Ealswith was the...
  
  
• Earl Godwin
  Earl Godwin
  Earl Godwin is the name of:* Earl Godwin , American radio newsman, commentator, and announcer* Godwin, Earl of Wessex , one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors...
  
  
• Ecgberht Ætheling
• Edgar
• Edgar the Outlaw
• Edgar
• Edgiva
  Edgiva of Kent
  Eadgifu of Kent was the third wife of Edward the Elder, King of England.Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent . She became the mother of two sons, Edmund I of England, later King Edmund I, and Eadred of England, later King Eadred, and a daughter, Saint Eadburh of Winchester...
  
  
• Edith of Wessex
  Edith of Wessex
  Edith of Wessex married King Edward the Confessor of England on 23 January 1045. Unlike most wives of kings of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, she was crowned queen, but the marriage produced no children...
  
  
• Edmund I
• Edmund Ironside
  Edmund Ironside
  Edmund Ironside or Edmund II was king of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut...
  
  
• Edred Aetheling
• Edred
• Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....
  
  
• Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex...
  
  
• Edward the Exile
  Edward the Exile
  Edward the Exile , also called Edward Ætheling, son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016 Canute had him and his brother, Edmund, exiled to the Continent...
  
  
• Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but not his father's acknowledged heir...
  
  
• Edwin
  Edwin, son of Edward the Elder
  Edwin was the younger son of King Edward the Elder and Ælfflæd, his second wife. He drowned at sea in circumstances which are unclear....
  
  
• Edwy
• Egbert
  Egbert of Wessex
  Egbert was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent...
  
  
• Eoppa
  Eoppa
  The name Eoppa is an Anglo-Saxon given name appearing in two traditional pedigrees:*Eoppa, father of Ida of Bernicia*Eoppa, nephew of king Ine of Wessex and great-grandfather of Egbert of Wessex...
  
  
• Ethelbert
  Ethelbert of Wessex
  Æthelberht was the King of Wessex from 860 to 865. He was the third son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and his first wife, Osburga. In 855 he became under-king of Kent while his father, Æthelwulf, visited Rome. His brother Æthelbald was left in charge of the West Saxons...
  
  
• Ethelfleda
  Ethelfleda
  Æthelflæd , was the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex and Ealhswith, wife of Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, and after his death, ruler of Mercia...
  
  
• Ethelred I
• Ethelred II
• Harold Harefoot
  Harold Harefoot
  Harold Harefoot was King of England from 1037 to 1040. His cognomen "Harefoot" referred to his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship. He was the son of Cnut the Great, king of England, Denmark, and Norway by Ælfgifu of Northampton...
  
  
• Harold II
• Harthacanute
  Harthacanute
  Harthacnut was King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042.He was the son of King Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, Norway, and England, and Emma of Normandy. When Cnut died in 1035, Harthacnut struggled to retain his father's possessions...
  
  
• Ine
  Ine of Wessex
  Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially...
  
  
• Ingild
• Mul
  Mul of Kent
  Mul may have briefly ruled as king of Kent following its conquest by his brother, Caedwalla of Wessex, in 686. Mul's father was Coenberht, making him a member of the House of Wessex The name Mul is very unusual and it has been postulated that it derives from the Latin mulus meaning mule, a word...
  
  
• Osburga
  Osburga
  Osburh or Osburga was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth"....
  
  
• Penda
• Redburga
  Redburga
  Redburga or Raedburh appears in a late medieval manuscript held by Oxford University as wife of king Egbert of Wessex. She is described there as "regis Francorum sororia", which means "pertaining to the sister of the French king"...
  
  
• Seaxburh
  Seaxburh of Wessex
  Seaxburh was a wife of Cenwalh of Wessex who according to tradition ruled Wessex as queen for a year following Cenwalh's death in 674. She should not be confused with her near-contemporary, Seaxburh of Ely, the saintly daughter of Anna of East Anglia....
  
  
• Sigeberht of Wessex
  Sigeberht of Wessex
  Sigeberht was the King of Wessex from 756 to 757.Sigeberht succeeded his distant relative Cuthred, but was then accused of acting unjustly. He was removed from power by a council of nobles, but given control of Hampshire. There, he was accused of murder, driven out and ultimately killed...
  
  
• Sweyn Forkbeard
• Tostig Godwinson
  Tostig Godwinson
  Tostig Godwinson was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned english King of England.-Early life:...
  
  
• Wulfnoth Cild
  Wulfnoth Cild
  Wulfnoth Cild was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and thus the grandfather of King Harold Godwinson...