House of Wessex
| House of Wessex Cerdicingas |
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 Golden Wyvern of Wessex |
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| Country | Kingdom of Wessex, Kingdom of England |
| Titles | |
| Founded | 519 |
| Founder | Cerdic of Wessex |
| Final ruler | Edward the Confessor |
| Dissolution | 1093 |
The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic (Cerdicingas in Old English), refers to the family that initially ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex, from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex until the unification of the Kingdoms of England.
The House became rulers of a unified English nation after the descendants of Alfred the Great (871 - 899) down to Edward the Confessor in 1066. Edward the Elder Alfred's son united under his rule, by conquering the Viking occupied areas, Mercia and East Anglia with Wessex. Then his son, Aethelstan, extended his authority into the north, Northumbria, above the Mersey and Humber, but this was not fully consolidated until after his nephew Edgar succeeded to the throne. This period of the English monarchy is known as the Anglo-Saxon period, because the two main branches of settlers were Angles (in Mercia and East Anglia) or Saxon (in Wessex, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Northumbria); a smaller group of settlers, the Jutes in Kent, Wight and in parts of east Sussex, merged with the Saxons.
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