- The
Gewisse (Old English: [jeˈwisːe] ye-WEES-se; Latin: Geuissæ) were a
tribe or
ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons.
Their first location,
mentioned in early...
- been
known to
contemporaries as king of the
Gewissae, a folk or
tribal group. The
first king of the
Gewissae to call
himself 'King of the West Saxons',...
- are
described as
aristocratic "aldormen" but only ****umed rule over the
Gewissae (as the West
Saxons were
known before the late 7th century) in 519. This...
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Oxford University Press, pp. 32–46. Walker, H. E. (1956). "Bede and the
Gewissae: The
Political Evolution of the
Heptarchy and Its Nomenclature". The Cambridge...
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states that Cædwalla was a "daring
young man of the
royal house of the
Gewissæ", and
gives his age at his
death in 689 as
about thirty,
making the year...
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Notes Kingdom of the
Gewissae Cerdicing dynasty 519 to 534
Cerdic Possibly Celtic, Brythonic, name. King of Wes**** (King of the
Gewissae) 534 to 560 Cynric...
- Danube,
possibly related to the
Goths Romania Jordanes,
Procopius Gewisse,
Gewissæ Saxon ethnic group in
Britain At the end of the 5th
century on the Upper...
- the island.
After Cædwalla had
possessed himself of the
kingdom of the
Gewissae, he also took the Isle of Wight,
which till then was
entirely given over...
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returned home in anger...in 591 a new king is said to have
ruled over the
Gewissae (West Saxons)... wars
between the
English drove him (Cealin) back to his...
- Lundensis, 31 (Lund, 1941).
Richard Coates, 'On Some
Controversy Surrounding Gewissae / Gewissei,
Cerdic and Ceawlin', Nomina, 13 (1989–90), 1–11. John Insley...
