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The West Saxons managed a significant military resurgence under Cædwalla, king of Wessex from about 685 to 688, but when Cædwalla departed for Rome on pilgrimage there may have been internal strife before Ine, his successor, took the throne.
Ine may have ruled alongside his father, Cenred, for a period: there is weak evidence for joint kingships, and stronger evidence of subkings reigning under a dominant ruler in Wessex, not long before this time.
It may have been Ine who divided Wessex into something approximating the modern counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, though earlier administrative boundaries might also have influenced these borders.
The choice of names for Ivor and Ynyr in the stories may be a consequence of spurious additions to the Laws of Edward the Confessor, which inaccurately speak of good relations between Wessex and the Welsh in the reign of King Ine of Wessex ( reigned 688 – 726 ).
Bede's dismissal of Æscwine and Centwine as merely sub-kings may represent the views of the supporters of the King Ine, whose family ruled Wessex in Bede's time.
Bede's dismissal of Æscwine as a mere sub-king may represent the views of the supporters of the King Ine, whose family ruled Wessex in Bede's time, as Ine's family were bona fide descendants of Cynric through Ceawlin's son Cuthwine.

Ine and have
The increasing strength of the West Saxons under Cædwalla and Ine would have limited Mercian opportunities in that direction.
Essex also included London, and the diocese of London included Surrey ; this appears to have been a source of friction between Ine and the East Saxon and Mercian kings, until the province was transferred to the diocese of Winchester in 705.
The " enemies " must be Ine or his people, but the location is unidentified ; historians have suggested locations in both Cornwall and Devon.
It is not known whether Ine took an interest in Hamwic, but some of the goods he favoured, including luxuries, were imported there, and the merchants would probably have needed royal protection.
It is possible that we do not have Ine ’ s laws in their original seventh-century form.
" Either Ine or Offa of Mercia is traditionally supposed to have founded the Schola Saxonum there, in what is today the Roman rione, or district, of Borgo.
The growing strength of the West Saxons under Cædwalla and Ine would have limited Mercian opportunities in that direction.
Ine appears to have retained control of Surrey, but did not recover Kent.
On the same basis ( re: genealogy of the later House of Wessex for comparison ) Ealdberht, who rebelled against King Ine in 722 and 725 ( A-S Chronicles ), could have been a contemporary and relative of Aethelberht.
) must have died in 692 ( but Ine was elected King of the West Saxons in 688 and abdicated in 726 ).

Ine and Thames
Ine ’ s predecessor, Cædwalla, had made himself overlord of most of these southern kingdoms, though he had not been able to prevent Mercian inroads along the upper Thames.

Ine and had
He appended rather than integrated the laws of Ine into his code, and although he included, as had Æthelbert, a scale of payments in compensation for injuries to various body parts, the two injury tariffs are not aligned.
In 726 Gregory had a royal visit from Ine, the former King of Wessex, who had abdicated the throne in order to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome and end his life there.
For the first few years of his reign he had to face the obstacles of two strong rival kings, Wihtred of Kent and Ine of Wessex.
Ine retained control of the Isle of Wight, and made further advances in Dumnonia, but the territorial gains Cædwalla had made in Sussex, Surrey and Kent were all lost by the end of Ine's reign.
Ine made peace with Kent in 694, when its king Wihtred gave Ine a substantial sum in compensation for the death of Cædwalla's brother Mul, who had been killed during a Kentish rebellion in 687.
Ine kept the South Saxons, who had been conquered by Cædwalla in 686, in subjugation for a period.
Ine had agreed to peace on the condition that the exiles were expelled.
Ine had recently agreed peaceful terms with Wihtred over compensation for the death of Mul, and there are indications that the two rulers collaborated to some degree in producing their laws.
Ine supported the church by patronising religious houses, especially in the new diocese of Sherborne, which had been divided from the diocese of Winchester in 705.
Ine had opposed this division, ignoring threats of excommunication from Canterbury, but he agreed to it when Bishop Haedde died.
In 726, Ine abdicated, with no obvious heir and, according to Bede, left his kingdom to " younger men " in order to travel to Rome, where he died ; his predecessor, Cædwalla, had also abdicated to go to Rome.
In 694, according to the ASC, the people of Kent came to terms with Ine, Caedwalla's successor, and granted him a sum " because they had burned Mul earlier ".
Ine had recently agreed peaceful terms with Wihtred over compensation for the death of Mul, and there are indications that the two rulers collaborated to some degree in producing their laws.
While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of his poems — Loch Ine and Irish Castles — were published in The Ballads of Ireland ( 1856 ).
In 722 AD, she destroyed the stronghold of Taunton ( which had been built by Ine ) in an attempt to find the rebel Ealdbert.

Ine and West
His successor Ine issued one of the oldest surviving English codes of laws and established a second West Saxon bishopric.
Ine was the most durable of the West Saxon kings, reigning for 38 years.
By the end of Ine's reign the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex and Essex were no longer under West Saxon domination ; however, Ine maintained control of what is now Hampshire, and consolidated and extended Wessex's territory in the western peninsula.
Bede tells that Ine was " of the blood royal ", by which he means the royal line of the Gewisse, the early West Saxon tribal name.
The genealogy of Ine and of the kings of Wessex is known from two sources: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List.
According to the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, Ine reigned for 37 years, abdicating in 726.
Sussex was still under West Saxon domination in 710, when Nothhelm is recorded as having campaigned with Ine in the west against Dumnonia.
According to John of Worcester, Geraint was killed after a series of battles that culminated in a victory of the West Saxons under Ine of Wessex in 710.
In 715, the Mercians under Ceolred fought a battle at " Woden's Barrow ", either against the West Saxons under Ine or together with them against an unnamed opponent, possibly the British ; the outcome of this battle was not recorded.
Ine, Cædwalla's successor, abdicated in 726, and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List says that he reigned for thirty-seven years, implying his reign began in 689 instead of 688.
It was also in 694 that Wihtred made peace with the West Saxon king Ine.
* Inas or Ine, king of the West Saxons in late seventh century Britain
Wessex under King Cynewulf emerged from Mercian domination and began advancing west again from Taunton, established as an advanced West Saxon position in 710 by King Ine, who defeated in that year the last recorded independent king in Devon ; the codified Laws of Ine made provision for the Wealhas, the Welsh " foreigners ", some of whom retained positions of responsibility.

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