Anglo-Saxon Kings Family Tree | England's "Dark Ages" 410 - 927 CE
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Charts & Script by Matt Baker
Narration by Jasmine Elleway
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod (Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. incompetech.com)
I wonder what Cerdic would think about the fact his bloodline not only succeeded in conquering the entire island but is still in power over it to this day 1500 years later.
English people who can trace their line back to Cerdic can also confidently claim to be descended from about 80% of the people who were alive in Europe at the time of Cerdic, which means pretty much all of their bloodlines are in power today
That was great. I’ve always found this period in English history to be really fascinating and I’m usually frustrated by the fact that most historians stop at either William or Alfred and don’t really attempt to trace either of their lines back any further. Thank you!
Imagine if you could trace it even further, before kings, before chiefs to just some guy in a straw hut. I've always found that idea fascinating.
@@iama2509 "just some guy in a straw hut." That has me dead 😂😂😂
@@iama2509 and then to some caveman
@@iama2509 or some roman emperor
I was thinking something similar. I wonder what sources were used especially since most say they are unreliable or non-existant.
It's so interesting that all those men have names ending in "a," which is a very interesting cultural difference from what we’re used to.
Yep in Old English men's names often ended in 'a' while women's names often ended in 'e'
Nice to see the Gwynedd Family tree on the left. Could you perhaps do a video on the rulers of all the kingdoms in Cymru?
Yup. I'll be expanding that section and doing a video on it eventually.
Thank you for requesting this.
Kingdom of Wales.
@@UsefulCharts great news! Can't wait
@@UsefulCharts pob lwc with the names 😂
This is surreal. I was literally watching Vikings a week ago, got super interested in European history and have been binging on Anglo Saxon and Germanic history for the past few days - and then my favourite channel releases this video!!
Watch the last kingdom. Not as good but very enjoyable.
@@rolandkloka last kingdoms new season(and I believe last?) should be coming up beginning of 2022 right? I personally think while maybe it’s not as popular, it’s just as good, at least it’s more historically accurate
@@chrisadlc1 is it better than the last few seasons of Vikings?
@@chrisadlc1 you are right.
@@lachienicholson1510 much better
Great video as always. I feel like we should hear more about Æthelstan, the first real King of England, who was perhaps the greatest of the Anglo Saxon Kings. He was highly praised by his contemporaries on the continent and not only did he remove the last remaining Vikings but made Scotland submit to him and defeated the King of Dublin.. but unfortunately most people just think of the monk from Vikings when they hear the name lol
My primary school was called Athelstan
The last kingdom sheds some light on him and his family Alfred the great Edward the elder aetheflaed who raised aethelstan in Mercia.
Athelstan was a bastard like William the conqueror.
💯% I stan Æethelstan...and I'd argue he was the only useful king of Wessex (Alfred setting things up for him to succeed tbf)
Sometimes also called "the Great", like his grandfather.
Back in the good old days when kings didn't use numericals.
The three Edwards we don't count lol.
No numericals, but an incredible variety of almost identical 5-6-letter-names xD
The good old Æ and they were all friends with Elves.
Numerals are great
Æthe[choose suffix]
The ancient bloodlines of the Anglo-Saxons. It is great to see them all in one spot and chart! Also, it is very accurate whilst admittedly I have a strong fondness of the line of Cerdic.
I have Germanic and Celtic roots
Cerdic's family has been theorized to be a native British noble dynasty who intermarried with the Anglo-Saxons and became Anglicized.
@@iggyzeta9755 Everyone theorizing something such as him being the real King Arthur but I am currently doing research myself.
@@leeandrew1754 A LOT of people do my guy
@@leeandrew1754 come to think of it, most English are 60 to 65 percent Celtic and 35 percent Saxon. Extensive DNA testing in England confirms this. Hence, England is an actual Celtic country. What a surprise. My theory is that the Saxon migration wasn’t as heavy as believed and the Britons and Saxons mingled and mixed on a large level.
It’s good to have a break from Jack’s voice every so often. Welcome to the UsefulCharts community, Jasmine! :D
Awesome vid about a part of British history that is difficult to understand and a warm welcome to Jasmine
@@deanalford8417 I am from the UK so there is no need
Outstanding video aside, Jasmine has such a lovely voice. There's something about it I can't put my finger on that is just so pleasing to my ears, I could listen to her speak all day! I want her to narrate every audiobook
I love you for the almost flawless Old English pronunciation of the names
Thanks so much for this. So many scholars just skip over this period as "we don't know anything about what happened"... when clearly it's not the case.
It is not surprising that only a few names from this period in history are still in use today, such as Edwin, Edward, Alfred, Oswald, and the legendary Arthur! Enjoyed learning more about this time period, even though I could not pronounce most of the names. Thank you!
We dont talk about Alfred the Father
Cedric too, though that's a Victorian corruption of Cerdic, said to be the founder of the Wessex dynasty.
Even though I'm English, I was never taught much about the Dark Ages at school, I was just thinking about it the other day, then this turns up! welcome to Jasmine, great video!
Its nice to hear someone explain their own country's history
I had to educate my own kids about the Anglo Saxons. Schools today seem to go from the Romans to the Tudors, maybe a quick skim through the English Civil War then WWII. Lucky for me I went to private school 😉
Jasmine's voice is just as pleasant to hear with a positive effect on my nerves as Matt Baker's. Makes it a lot easier to listen and get the interesting info on board. This is a very nice channel for who is interested in history and the charts should imo be used at schools. The subtitles are exceptionally excellent. All in all thank you very mujch.
I’m excited that you’re expanding the narration! I’ve been waiting for this video forever
I came to the comments to complain about how there's yet another guest speaker, and how I want our Matt back! However I actually think I like Jasmine more. Matt, you're fired.
I appreciate that he hearted this What a legend
I don't think I understood how this period all played out until you just explained it. Thank you, Jasmine.
Love this, I was brought up in Northumberland near Tynemouth Prior where there’s the legend of three kings buried there. My family history comes from Northern Ireland (Ulaid) and I love a video on the kingdoms of Ulster and their relationships with Scotland, Wales and England.
This is incredible, great job narrating!
Well, no wonder high fantasy writers somehow getting inspired by England history or at least a part of it. The reality and history of this kingdom exceeds any fantasy.
Thank you for putting this together! Super helpful! I recommended this video on my channel about Kings and Queens in TV and movies during this time period. 😀
Its so SO nice to hear a familiar/local voice on the channel as a very long time viewer! Jasmine is so enthusiastic and clearly knows exactly what she is talking about and sounds like she is from the South-East too by her accent, also where I'm from! :D Great stuff!
@@Alonglongtimeago Ahhh ok xD I guess im slightly more South-East than South-Middle xD
Anything from Useful charts is an instant watch for me. And to hear Jasmine's voice on this one instantly brought me so much joy as I love her channel. Great surprise. Great work
yeay, waited a long time to finally hear about this. great video with a great host i will check out. thx! :)
loved this collab! fantastic content as usual matt, and jasmine you are a natural narrator!
Thank you. Loved the names!
I found this very informative, balanced and interesting! Thank you!
Saying some of these names is a challenge and you met them head on, good job!
Absolutely super video. British Anglo/Saxon historical (Post Roman) is just so fascinating . . .
Interesting that the majority of the trees have Ing in their lines, might mean they heritage all way back to the ingvaeones and which is the royal line of Ynglinga as in Frey and Freya in norse mythorlogy, the magical Vanir gods. even East Anglia use the Three crown crest which is the symbol of the as some might now Sweden or as in that day Svithjod. Symbolizing the three Yngvi kings buried at the kings mounds in Uppsala that are said to heritage from just Frey and Freya. This same crest also appear I believe in a country in Ireland as well. Which is a clear sign of the connectiong of the Angel, Saxon and Jutes with the Suiones/Suebian/Suecia the Suiones is a LATIN term for Swedes, which is fully recorded in our history books when you look at the late Iron age, the fall of rome etc etc. Swedes was never invaded in their homeland by the romans, but in early Iron age there is clear evidence of trade being done with romans in places as Uppåkra excavation site, a town and trade hub. People tend to misunderstand the impact and royality that existed in Sweden since late bronze age upp until the end of the Vendel Era and migration period and how much influence they had on trade of what would later turn out to become the Hanseatic league when the new king of the Eriksson lineage in 1200century Birger Magnusson also known as Birger Jarl founded Stockholm, which didnt exist until 1200ce. Before that the major fighting between who should rule Sweden existed in Västra Götaland and Östra Götaland, West and East. but during Viking age it's most likely that the majority of Seafaring was either from places like GOTHenburg, GÖTEborg to the west and England, while Östra Götaland and Roslagen where Birka and Uppsala is and their harbours when going to the Baltics and into Slavic land creating the Rus dynasty and then later down to the middle east where they have already been for centuries during greco-roman times before that. The Sutton Hoo helmet and it's burialmound has a clear connection to the Swedish Vendel kings and the helmet design is identical to how craftsmen in Sweden did their Vendel Helmets pre viking age, both fought with roundshields and spears and the Sutton Hoo sword hilt is inlayed with Amber which only exists in Northern Denmarks coasts and Swedish Southern and Western coasts.
@Immortal Science of Hauntology but they have Ingvaeonic conections. Cause Engls,Saxons,Jutes are Ingevaeons. And I think this is word from which word Engl comes. Thats means that Anglo-Saxons are descendants of Cembrii. The tribe who defeated Roman Republic in 113 bce.
@@empireofengland6039 the Jutes may havw spoken proto-norse originally and not an Invgaeonic language, since there is evidence for them beinf Geats who migrated to Jutland.
@@empireofengland6039 @Stoned Ape Angles, Saxons and Jutes were all Ingvaeonic tribes, probably descended from a man named Ingwanaz or the like. However: i) "Angles" or Angli were so called because they possessed "angols" or angles, nowadays called fishhooks. It is likely their use of fishhooks and occupation as fishermen led the Romano-British people (RBP) of Britain call them that. ii) Some say their ancestor's name (Ingwanaz) may have played a part in making the RBP call them Angles. ii) "Saxons" or Saksan were so called because they had a particular form of "saks" (knives). Their language didn't spread into Britain and stayed in Germany, so that became Low German for your info. iii) "Jutes" or Yutaz refers to the tribes in North Denmark whose name's meaning ("jute") is unknown. Their identity beyond being Germanic people is much debated, so we can't say they ARE Geats, to whom they are certainly related. Heck, we don't even know if even Goths and Geats are closely related, beyond the common Germanic identity! iv) We are uncertain if Cimbri gave rise to the Anglo Saxons.
@@arta.xshaca Saxon contributed to English as much as Anglish did. The differences between Low German in Lower Saxony and English are due to new migration from the southern parts of Saxony northwards towards the coasts, which brought non-Ingvaeonic dialectal influences to continental Saxon.
I always understood that Inga meant 'family of'. Here in West Yorkshire there are many places with ingredients in the middle, i.e. Cottingley (the clearing or field of Cott's family), Frizinghall (the hall or house of Fritz's family, or the Frisian family) and in other parts of England are Darlington, Billingham, Birmingham Basingstoke, etc. Fascinating!
As a proud Northumbrian I have a couple of minor points on the video as it pertains to the Kingdom of Northumbria. Oswald is both a king and a Saint and Oswiu whilst certainly known for defeating Penda is probably better known for chairing the Synod of Whitby and ultimately ruling in favour of the Roman Catholic church's method of calculating Easter over the Irish Catholic method
Been waiting for this one!
Very informative, great to get to grips with this not so well known part of our history.
i have been wanting something like this for ages! yes!
Fantastic episode!
U hope you will cover other "dark ages" monarchies like the visigoths or gepids
And the Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Suebi, Lombards and Vandals.
@@Lord_Raymund The Anglo Saxons are already connected to the Suebi, Suebi is another term for Suiones, Latin word for Swedes. Only in Sweden will you find helmets called Vendel helmest in southern Sweden Uppåkra excavation site that resembles the Sutton Hoo helmet, Sutton Hoo is no doubt Anglo Saxon but what differs Anglo Saxons and Suiones/Suecians/Suebians/Svithjod/Svear/Swedes back then is very very little. But One thing is sure Sutton Hoo helmer, is connected to the Vendels like some call Vandals but Vendels are former Swedish Late Iron Age sea kings. What later in middle ages was called the Vende are is almost the whole part of northern Germany, Pomerania, Prussia and the Baltic countries. The Vendel lands. Now thats why later when Sweden became united every king of Sweden has been the King of Swedes, Göta(East, West Götaland and Gotland) and Vende. Too understand this better you also must understand that during 1100-1200 The Kings of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England and the Hanseatic league and German nobility have intermarragied over and over between eachother and where closely relatives to eachother. Which would change depending on which king was ambitious enough to fight and depening on who won the others went to exile at some of their cousins land and war between Danes, Swedes and Norwegians went back and forth in what was called Sealand. But the one who managed to Unite them all and was Swedish king Birger Brosa, the grandfather of Birger Magnusson who with the dethroned Swedish king Karl Eriksson, who was a boy when the Danish Sverkerssons killed his father. Then after Karl Erikssons ruled with Birger Brosa by his hand they opened up for the germanic Merchants which would later become the Hanseatic league during Birger Brosas Grandchild known as Birger Jarl or Birger Magnusson who created the town Stockholm and made it Swedens capital. Karl Eriksson is an Ostrogoth descendant and so is Birger Jarl, they reigned and lived in Östragötaland EAST Götaland Ostro/East, Goth, Göta.
Fantastic description 👌 bring her back for more.
great video
Why?
Brilliant to summarise all that in just under 18 minutes.
I've just recently started to do my genealogy with my mom on her side. Turns out we are related through a direct line all the way back to the House of Wessex...I'm a royal baby!!! It's been a wild roller coaster but insanely addicting. I am a huge history need anyway, and all this came from my grandmother whose last name was Stuart. On her dad's side I've already gone back to my 11th? Great grandparents in this tiny little village that a 1200 year history of the town was the subject. It was until my mom was 58 did she find out she has living relatives....what a wild ride!!!
Update? Any other interesting finds ?
Iv been waiting for this very video !
Would love for this chart to be a poster! Can't wait for the book though!
I heard they're making a book about the British monarchy. Maybe this chart will be in the book?
@@charliedegiulio9951 Hopefully!
@@aurynlalor1366 They're working on the book in June.
This is fabulous!!
Ah yes! I've been waiting for this one!
wish to see more Dark ages trees like this!
Have to tell U brother, I've watched several of ur vids now, u have done some work to create all these histories. Loved the ones on the Queen and Dracul a, Quran, and the Jacobite line to present day. We shall have our King. There's always hope.
Here's the lesson: Be glad you were born in this century, otherwise you'd have ended up being named Ethebruweardobertinwuieheard.
Very informative , educational and profound history
I love the Saxon period it's missing bits make it a seductive mystery. but those names are a handful. wow.
Great narration!
LOVE this narration. Very pleasant to listen too.
Great video. Clears up a lot of bull that some of my acquaintances spout out about early England.
What did they say?
@@francoisdaureville323 They have these convoluted theories about the Norse and Scots. Confusing facts about William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, the Sutton Hoo site. Made my head spin. I'm by no means an expert on English history, but I question pontification when I hear it.
@@paulkoza8652 are you scottish? Im french england and france history specially in the middle ages is very interlink so im learning this
Great video and I would love to download this chart so I can see the relations closer.
Excellent video!
ngl, I came into this video thinking "alright, Jacky boy, let 'er rip" but was surprised to be introduced to another historian KZheadr. Welcome, Jasmine! (Don't worry, Jack & Matt. You guys are still alright)
Finally a new family tree video !
Wow, they uploaded the Japanese Imperial family video just a week ago and you were already impatient for more? You are keen.
@@Dave_Sisson i already watched that video like a year ago, i mean a new family tree the last few have been remasters
We were this 🤏🏻 close to having a Sexland instead of England
It that in irish were England is known as sassana which means something along the line of land of the saxons )
@@mikeoxsmal8022 In scottish the English are Sassenach.
@@04nbod no the word Is Sasannach ,which the Irish is sasanach pronounced the same, sassenach is a Scottish English term derived from sasannach
I really enjoyed this one
Great presentation
I really like your charts
Great explanation
Fascinating and good job and yes welcome Jasmine.
There was also West Wales (Cornwall and Devon), and Bernicia and Deira (later merged into Northumbria). Also, the Jutes were invited to Britain to see of the goths and visigoths, and were offered Thanet as their reward, but they took the whole of Kent instead.
Love her narration.
great videos thanx so much
Can you do the royal line of Castille, Leon, Asturias, Galicia, Navarre and Aragon? Hehe
There was a Kingdom of Lindsey. Near Lincolnshire.
Which came under the influence of Northumbria and Mercia
Cerdic the ancestor of what later became Wessex was possibly full or part British as the name Cerdic is thought to be British in origin as apposed to Saxon.
I’ve always wanted to make a chart for Anglo-Saxon England
You haven’t mentioned Uhtred! Only teasing, this is brilliant.
I haven't watched it yet but I already like it
for anyone wondering why the isle of wight was not coloured in at 2:20 it was ruled by a minor jute tribe not a remnant britons.
Enjoyed this, I point out that the Celtic speakers survived in large parts of what became England into the Middle Ages after the Norman conquest, some laws refer to them and their wergild, also many reports of them carrying out raids. Also quite a few Anglo Saxon kings have Celtic names, including Penda.
The founder of Wessex had a British name too, Cerdic.
@@mikeycraig8970Yeah but it is said that he was from Old Saxony according to Celtic writers so maybe they are the ones that gave him the name and there were some Germanic people in Britannia before the Anglo-Saxon invasion
@@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx There were Germanic tribes serving in the Roman army which maintained a hold on Britain until the early fifth century. Germanic people had been in Britain a couple of hundred years before even the Anglo Saxon migrations.
Incredible information thanks. I recommend you add more audio silence between sentences and sections.
Beautiful voice
how interesting I heard Great Lives on the radio earlier this morning and heard about Emma of Normandy being the queen consort of King Ethelred the Unready
You mean Æthelred ;)
I happen to be related to Ragnar distantly, and of Clan Gunn, which were Scandinavians, that came, and stayed in NE Scotland. One of of our Cluny females married the brother of William Wallace. That's a lot to tie together, but I'd love to see, and purchase your work on that. Respect.
Well done 👍
I'm a descendant of a Plantagenet from my Welf ancestor.
Unless things have changed recently, I believe there is a consensus that the bret- in bretwalda is from the word brytten, which meant big or wide. The title probably meant a ruler with great power, not ruler of Britain, though that would make the loose translation of "high king" more accurate.
Interesting. In West Flemish the word 'broad' is pronounced 'brejt'. The word 'violence ' is 'ge-weld' in which you can see 'walda' back. I believe it originally was a term for a band of armed men. So a literal translation could be the bloke with the biggest armed gang.
Great job, Jasmine! Love hearing about the pre-Alfredian kings. Ecgberht is probably my favorite, but that could be heavily influenced by my "Vikings" tv show fandom. Offa was a bit of a revelation to me, though. Wonderful vid!
awesome
Realised there probably won’t be a video on the royal family trees of the kingdoms of Dumnonia and Kernow
Can you do one for the Visigoths please?
Now I'm in the mood to play one of these in CK2
just select a time period before Aegon's conquest
Ooooo this looks interesting
And me thinking the earliest possible ancestor someone could trace back to with certainty (at least in relation to Europe) was Arnulf of Metz (who was born about 50 years after Cerdic died)
Yeah I discovered this when doing my tree, the Saxon line stretches out really far back.
I was disappointed that this started with Cerdic, I wanted to see how he was related to Freawine and thus Odin, but the wikipedia page for Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies has like 5 different versions so I don't think there's an answer
its the 420 comment though
It would be interesting to see how the Windsors relate to the first kings of England and Scotland. Is there a link to all 7 kingdoms?
As I mention in the video, the current royal family descends from the Wessex line.
@Michael Rae @UsefulCharts The royalty likes to trace back to the Wessex line only because Alfred the Great was considered the first king of a united England, but on many other lines there are connections to the other kings also. One example: Alfred's great-grandfather, Eahlmund married a daughter of the King of Kent. Another example, Alfred's wife, Ealhswith's maternal grandfather was Wigmund, King of Mercia. Those 7 kingdoms intermarried in many places. So you don't even need to start as recent as the Windsors in order to show descent from all 7 kingdoms. This video also showed a few examples of this intermarriage.
The Windsors can trace descent from Alfred (and therefore Cerdic) through the Plantagenets, due to the ancestry of the Empress Matilda (Henry II's mum). She was also from the line of Malcolm of Scotland.
William the conqueror was the cousin of Edward the confessor the last Anglo Saxon King that's how .
yay jasmine is here
Thanks
Just had a lesson on the history of English Common Law and it was about this whole topic haha
I wonder if there's information on smaller known families in England. I come from the Lippincott lineage.
@9:00, so Mercia doesn't take it's name from the river ? Is it the other way around ?
How about briton brythonic family trees of the same period?
the strange thing is that the heraldry of kent is very similair to that of Lower saxony (Niedersaksen ) in germany and Twente in the east of the netherlands
My patriarchal family can trace its roots to minor Anglo-Saxon nobles just east of St Albans. We think our surname comes from Wakeley. My matriarchal family is from Scotland. We became nobles there from helping the MacDonalds' of Glencoe after the Massacre. It is said we were given land after the Dutch king left.
The McDonald's weren't nobles and all yanks have the same bs story to tell...
I can't wait to name my kid Æthelwulf. What happened to such great names?!
Right. I kinda lucked out in that sense. Guess people got tired of being teased. Although, I’d be happy with a name like Beowulf, mysel.
We still have Edward. (Unfortunately Alfred is no longer popular - the only England manager to win a World Cup was an Alf). The prolific Scyld Berry (cricket journalist) has a name with an even older pedigree, if you recall Beowulf.
I love names like that too, wish they were more common.