The Kings of Wessex: From Cerdic to Alfred

This is a history of the kingdom of Wessex told through its regnal kings, of which there were over twenty, from its early foundations under Cerdic circa 500 to its apogee in 886 under Alfred the Great. Its roots are traced to the migration of Germanic tribes in the fifth century, with two of these tribes, the West Saxons of Hampshire and the Gewisse of the Upper Thames Valley, eventually uniting to form what would become the kingdom of Wessex. We move from the post-Roman period, where Cerdi...