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Fréawine Frithugarsson
- Preferred Name: Fréawine Frithugarsson[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- NFS ID: with note: Description: LZQR-16B
- Birth: ABT 327 in Saxony, Germany
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duc des Waernas , Roi des Saxons de Morinie , Gouverneur de Schleswig with note: All vital information and relationships match. ID numbers: MNLJ-Y8K and LVP9-89F.
- Death: 380 in Saxony, Germany
- Occupation: Frowinus Sleswicensium Prefectus with note: All vital information and relationships match. ID numbers: MNLJ-Y8K and LVP9-89F.
- Occupation: Governor of Schleswig with note: All vital information and relationships match. ID numbers: MNLJ-Y8K and LVP9-89F.
- FSID: LVP9-89F
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freawineasson-2
Freawine, Frowin or Frowinus, figures as a governor of Schleswig in Gesta Danorum and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an ancestor of the kings of Wessex, but the latter source only tells that he was the son of Friðgar and the father of Wig.
In the Gesta Danorum, Frowin was the father-in-law of Offa of Angel (presented as a prince and later king of Denmark), whose father king Wermund liked both Frowin and his sons Ket and Wig.
Frowin was challenged to combat by the Myrging king Eadgils, and killed. King Wermund, who liked their father, subsequently raised Ket and Wig as his own. Frowin would later be avenged by his two sons Ket and Wig.
Freawine appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the son of Frithugar and a descendant of Woden. He is also identified as the father of Wig (Wye), the father of Gewis, the father of Esla, the father of Elesa, the father of Cerdic of Wessex who invaded Britain in 495 and founded the kingdom of Wessex.
The name of Freawine's mother and that of his wife are not identified.
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Cerdic, first king of the West Saxons (519–534), is recorded as descended from Woden. This mythical descent is set out in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: "Woden/Bældæg/Brand/Frithugar/Freawine/Wig/Gewis/Esla/Elesa/Cerdic".
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In its entry for the year 552, following a note that Cerdic's son Cynric fought with the Britons at Sarum and put them to flight, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle adds in a pedigree reaching from Cerdic back to the god Woden: Cerdic was the son of Elesa, Elesa of Esla, Esla of Gewis, Gewis of Wye, Wye of Frewin, Frewin of Frithgar, Frithgar of Brand, Brand of Balday, Balday of Woden.
Preferred Parents:
Father: King Frithugar Deira Saxony, b. 284 in Saxony, Germany d. 390 in Niedersachsen, Germany
Family 1: Blesinde De Toxandrie de Cologne, b. 375 in Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany d. 17 AUG 418 in Köln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Wig Freawinesson, b. 355 in Saxony, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany d. 446 in Saxony, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: King Freawin -
Author: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; M J Swanton, Translator, Ed. {1998}, Page number: AD 854, generation nonexistant in either MS
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742397
- Title: The chronicle of Æthelweard by Ethelwerd, d. 998
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/chronicleofthelw0000ethe/page/n133/mode/1up;
Note: A translated version of "Chronicon Æthelweardi" (The Chronicle of Æthelweard)
It provides a page for page translation: Æthelweard's original work on one page, shadowed by a translation into modern English on the following page.
Page 33 and 34 of the III book provide a pedigree from Alfred and his father Æthelwulf, back to his father King Ecgbyrht, stretching back 32 generations to an ancestor named Sceaf.
Alfred >Æthelwulf >Ecgbyrht >Ealhmund >Eafa >Eoppa >Ingild >Cenred >Ceolwald >Cuthwine >Ceawlin >Cynric >Cerdic >Elesa >Esla >Gewis >Wig >Freawine >Frithogar >Brond >Baldr >Woden >Frithowald >Frealaf >Frithowulf >Fin >Godwulf >Geat >Tetwa >Beow >Scyld >Sceaf.
"...filius Ecgbyrhti regis, cuius auus Ealhmund, proauus Eafa, atauus Eoppa, abauus Ingild, Ines frater, Occidentalium Anglorum regis, qui Romae finierat uitam, traxemntque supra dicti reges a Genred rege originem. Genred fuit filius Geoluuald. Auus quippe eius Cuthuuine, proauus / Ceaulin, atauus Cynric, abauus Cerdic, qui et primus possessor Brittanniae partis occidentalis superatos exercitus Brittannorum, cuius pater fuit Elesa, auus Esla, proauus Geuuis, atauus Vuig, abauus Freauuine, sextus pater eius Frithogar, Septimus Brond, octauus Balder, nonus Vuothen, decimus Frithouuald, undecimus Frealaf, duodecimus Frithouulf, tertius decimus Fin, quartus decimus Goduulfe, quintus decimus Geat, sextus decimus Tetuua, septimus decimus Beo, octauus decimus Scyld, nonus decimus Scef. Ipse Scef cum uno dromone aduectus est in insula oceani que dicitur Scani, armis circundatus, eratque ualde recens puer, et ab incolis illius terrae ignotus. Attamen ab eis suscipitnr, et ut familmrem diMgenti animo eum custodiexnnt, et post in regem eligunt; de cuius prosapia ordinem trahit Adulf rex. Transmeatusque est tunc numerus annornm. qum.qviagessimus quintus, ex quo Ecgbyrht cepit regnare.
Page n134
Winchester. The above-mentioned king was the son of King Ecgbyrht, and his grandfather was Ealhmund, his great-grandfather Eafa, his great-great-grandfather Eoppa, his great-great-great-grandfather Ingild, brother of Ine, king of the West Saxons, who died in Rome, and these kings derived their origin from Cenred. Cenred was the son of Ceolwald. His grandfather was Cuthwine, his great-grandfather Ceawlin, his great-great-grand- father Cynric, his great-great-great-grandfather Cerdic, who was the first possessor of the western area of Britain, after he had overcome the armies of the Britons. And his father was Elesa, his grandfather Esla, his great-grandfather Gewis, his great-great-grandfather Wig, his great-great-great-grandfather Freawine, his sixth father Frithogar, his seventh Brond, his eighth Baldr, his ninth Woden, his tenth Frithowald, his eleventh Frealaf, his twelfth Frithowulf, his thirteenth Fin, his fourteenth Godwulf, his fifteenth Geat, his sixteenth Tetwa, his seventeenth Beow, his eighteenth Scyld, his nineteenth Sceaf. And this Sceaf arrived with one light ship in the island of the ocean which is called Skaney, with arms all round him. He was a very young boy, and unknown to the people of that land, but he was received by them, and they guarded him with diligent attention as one who belonged to them, and elected him king. From his family King Æthelwulf derived his descent. And the number of fifty-five years had passed since Ecgbyrht began to reign."
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