Person:Cenred of Wessex (1)

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Cenred of Wessex was a member of the House of Wessex and a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert. It is possible that Cenred ruled alongside his son Ine 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 his time. Ine acknowledges his father's help in his code of laws, and there is also a surviving land-grant that indicates Cenred was still reigning in Wessex after Ine's accession.

His father was Ceolwald of Wessex. Cenred had at least three other children.

• Ine, king of Wessex and married Æthelburg of Wessex
• Ingild, the great-grandfather of Ealhmund of Kent, and the great-great grandfather of Egbert
• Cuthburh, who married Aldfrith of Northumbria, and became abbess of Wimborne
• Cwenburh, who may have succeeded her sister as abbess at Wimborne.

1.   Searle, William George. Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles, the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. (Cambridge: University Press in Cambridge, 1899)
   pp. 334-335.
2.   Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 5.
3.   Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 95.
4.   Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 1, p. 338-344.
5. ↑ Cenred of Wessex, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
6.   Cenred 1 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.