- 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...
-
Saxons were
called the
Gewisse, and in his
Dictionary of
National Biography entry he is
given the
title "king of the
Gewisse".
According to the Anglo-Saxon...
- the
House of the
Gewisse, the
Cerdicings and the West
Saxon dynasty,
refers to the family,
traditionally founded by
Cerdic of the
Gewisse, that
ruled Wes****...
- Mercians; the Hæstingas (around the town of
Hastings in Sus****); and the
Gewisse. The four main
kingdoms in Anglo-Saxon
England were: East
Anglia Mercia...
- Anglo-Saxons
believed that Wes**** was
founded by
Cerdic and
Cynric of the
Gewisse,
though this is
considered by some to be a legend. The two main sources...
- This region,
probably connected to the
early tribal grouping known as the
Gewisse, a term used by Bede for the West Saxons, lay on the
frontier between the...
- The
conflict involved the
armies of Mercia,
under King Penda, and the
Gewisse (predecessors of the West Saxons),
under Kings Cynegils and Cwichelm. The...
-
Retrieved 9
January 2024.
Torrekens 2007. "Bericht uit het
Gewisse" [Message from the
Gewisse]. npdata.be (in Dutch). 11
September 2008.
Archived from the...
- of
Ashdown by Penda's son
Wulfhere c. 661, in the
original lands of the
Gewisse,
suggests that this
movement was
brought about by
sustained Mercian pressure...
-
death in 689 as
about thirty,
making the year of his
birth about 659. "
Gewisse", a
tribal name, is used by Bede as an
equivalent to "West Saxon": the...
