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Ceawlin and was
The Chronicle records several battles of Ceawlin's between the years 556 and 592, including the first record of a battle between different groups of Anglo-Saxons, and indicates that under Ceawlin Wessex acquired significant territory, some of which was later to be lost to other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Though there are many unanswered questions about the chronology and activities of the early West Saxon rulers, it is clear that Ceawlin was one of the key figures in the final Anglo-Saxon conquest of southern Britain.
There are multiple examples of joint kingship in Anglo-Saxon history, and this may be another: it is not clear what Cutha's relationship to Ceawlin is, but it certainly is possible he was also a king.
It probably was built in the fifth or sixth centuries, perhaps by Ceawlin.
The entry reads " Here Ceawlin and Cutha fought against the Britons at the place which is named Fethan leag, and Cutha was killed ; and Ceawlin took many towns and countless war-loot, and in anger he turned back to his own.
It is presumed that Ceawlin, who succeeded Cynric in about 581, was his son.
Ceawlin was deposed, perhaps by his successor, a nephew named Ceol, and died a year later.
After Cenwealh's death in 673, his widow, Seaxburh, held the throne for a year ; she was followed by Aescwine, who was apparently descended from another brother of Ceawlin.
Centwine was succeeded by another supposed distant relative, Caedwalla, who claimed descent from Ceawlin.
His successor was Ine, who also claimed to be a descendant of Cerdic through Ceawlin, but again through a long-separated line of descent.
The Battle of Deorham or Dyrham was fought in 577 between the West Saxons under Ceawlin and Cuthwine and the Britons of the West Country.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle there was a battle at Dyrham in 577 in which the Gewisse ( West Saxons ) under Ceawlin killed three British kings and captured Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath.
West Saxon occupation of the area did not last long, however, and may have ended as early as 584, the date of the battle of Fethanleag, according to the A. S. C., in which Cutha was killed and Ceawlin returned home in anger, and certainly by 603 when, according to Bede, Saint Augustine attended a conference of Welsh bishops " at St. Augustine's Oak on the borders of the Hwicce and the West Saxons ".
Possibly this was the palace of one of the British kings defeated by Ceawlin in 577.
In about 556 Banbury was the scene of a battle between the local Anglo-Saxons of Cynric and Ceawlin, and the local Romano-British.
The Britons in Dumnonia were cut off from their allies in Wales by Ceawlin of Wessex's victory at Dyrham in 577, but as sea travel was easier than travel by land, the blow may not have been severe ; principal trade routes were apparently maintained via the sea ports of neighbouring Brittany, a small semi-autonomous duchy until 1532.
Ella, king of the South-Saxons, was the first who possessed so large a territory ; the second was Ceawlin, king of the West-Saxons: the third was Ethelbert, King of Kent ; the fourth was Redwald, king of the East-Angles ; the fifth was Edwin, king of the Northumbrians ; the sixth was Oswald, who succeeded him ; the seventh was Oswy, the brother of Oswald ; the eighth was Egbert, king of the West-Saxons.

Ceawlin and years
To the west, Ceawlin of Wessex is known to have reached the Bristol Channel one hundred years before.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he became king the same year as Ceawlin of Wessex ( 560 ) on the death of Ida of Bernicia, and ruled 30 years.

Ceawlin and Anglo-Saxon
The name, Ceawlin, is one of the names that does not have a convincing Anglo-Saxon origin ; it seems more likely to be from the native Britons.
" Cuthwulf's relationship with Ceawlin is unknown, but the alliteration common to Anglo-Saxon royal families suggests Cuthwulf may be part of the West Saxon royal line.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 577 records that that year King Ceawlin of Wessex and his young son Cuthwine fought the Britons of the West Country at " the spot that is called ".
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ine's successor, Aethelheard, fought that year with an ealdorman named Oswald, whom the Chronicle provides with a genealogy showing descent from Ceawlin, an early king of Wessex.
According to The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle there was " a great slaughter " in 592 and " Ceawlin was driven out ".
Oswald may have had the better claim, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls him a descendant of the early king Ceawlin, but it was Æthelheard who prevailed.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he began his reign in 591, but it was only in the following year that he drove out his uncle Ceawlin in a battle at Woden's Barrow in Wiltshire, thus denying the throne to the rightful heir, Ceawlin's son Cuthwine.

Ceawlin and with
The first battle Ceawlin fought as king is dated by the Chronicle to 568, when he and Cutha fought with Æthelberht, the king of Kent.
The English conquest of the Severn valley began in 577 with the victory of Ceawlin at Deorham, followed by the capture of Cirencester, Gloucester and Bath.
This battle was fought against Ceawlin and Cwichelm of Wessex, the West Saxon kings who invaded their territory with a larger force than the East-Saxons could muster in or about 626.

Ceawlin and southern
Ceawlin is also named as one of the eight " bretwaldas ", a title given in the Chronicle to eight rulers who had overlordship over southern Britain, although the extent of Ceawlin's control is not known.
Ceawlin is one of the seven kings named in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as holding " imperium " over the southern English: the Chronicle later repeated this claim, referring to Ceawlin as a bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ".

Ceawlin and England
According to the Chronicle, Cædwalla was the son of Coenberht, and was descended via Ceawlin from Cerdic, who was the first of the Gewisse to land in England.

Ceawlin and native
The first record of a battle fought by Ceawlin is in 556, when he and his father, Cynric, fought the native Britons at " Beran byrg ", or Bera's Stronghold.

Ceawlin and Britons
The annal for 577 reads " Here Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons, and they killed three kings, Coinmail and Condidan and Farinmail, in the place which is called Dyrham, and took three cities: Gloucester and Cirencester and Bath.
Ceawlin overcame pockets of resisting Britons to the northeast, in the Chilterns, Gloucestershire and Somerset.
* Cynric and Ceawlin of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh.
In 556 he and his son Ceawlin won a battle against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury Castle.
Dyrham is thought to have been the site of the important Battle of Deorham fought in AD 577 between the West Saxons under Ceawlin and Cuthwine, and the Britons of the West Country.

Ceawlin and by
Ceawlin died in 593, having been deposed the year before, possibly by his successor, Ceol.
This view is supported by the non-Germanic names of some of his descendants including Ceawlin, Cedda and Caedwalla.
In 1969 he married Hungarian born Anna Gael Gyarmathy, by whom he has two children, Lady Lenka Thynn and Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth ( pronounced ' See awe lin ') who were sent to the local comprehensive school.
Occupation of the area continued into the early Middle Ages ( AD 410-1066 ) when two battles are understood to have taken place in the area: Breahburh ( AD 567 ), thought to have been fought by Ceawlin of Wessex on the slopes of Barbury Hill, and Ellandun ( AD 825 ) at Elcombe Hall by Egbert of Wessex.
Alton may have been the site of a bloody defeat of a Saxon army led by Ceawlin in the year 592.
To search out her mother, Julia, Regina secures passage to Rome by allowing herself and her daughter to give sexual favours to a wealthy merchant named Ceawlin.

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