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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 0680 Wessex, England | | Death Date | 0718 Wessex, England | | Father | Coenred Co-Ruler of Wessex | Born: 0644 Wessex, England | Died: 0694 | | Mother | | Born: | | | Ingild
Notes: | ngild of Wessex (672-718 was a member of the House of Wessex. He was Wessex, England. Although a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert, Ingild was never king due to usurpations by junior branches of the family. Ingilds father was Coenred, his brother Ine, and his sister Cuthburga. He had one son, Eoppa, born c. 706. He died in Canterbury, Kent, England.
| | Notes: | Early sources agree that Ine was the son of Cenred, and that Cenred was the son of Ceolwald; further back there is less agreement.[1] Ines siblings included a brother, Ingild, and two sisters, Cuthburh and Cwenburg. Cuthburh was married to King Aldfrith of Northumbria,[2] and Ine himself was married to Æthelburg.[1] 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.[3] 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. The Chronicle was created in the late ninth century, probably at the court of Alfred the Great, and some of its annals incorporated short genealogies of kings of Wessex. These are often at variance with the more extensive information in the Regnal List.[4] The inconsistencies appear to result from the efforts of later chroniclers to demonstrate that each king on the list was descended from Cerdic, the founder, according to the Chronicle, of the West Saxon line in England.[5] Ines predecessor on the throne of Wessex was Cædwalla, but there is some uncertainty about the transition from Cædwalla to Ine. Cædwalla abdicated in 688 and departed for Rome to be baptised. According to the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, Ine reigned for 37 years, abdicating in 726. These dates imply that he did not gain the throne until 689, which could indicate an unsettled period between Cædwallas abdication and Ines accession. 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.[6] Ine acknowledges his fathers help in his code of laws,[7] and there is also a surviving land-grant that indicates Cenred was still reigning in Wessex after Ines accession
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