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Wihtgils von Sachsen III



Preferred Parents:
Father: Witta von Sachsen II, b. 212   d. ABT 347 in Sachsen, Germany
Mother: Guddline von Sachsen Born de Rugie, b. in Europe   

Sources:
  1. Title: Wikiwand: Wihtgils
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wihtgils;
    Note: Wihtgils (fl. 5th century) was a semi-legendary Jutish chieftain who, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was the father of Hengest and Horsa: "A.D. 449. Their leaders were two brothers, Hengest and Horsa; who were the sons of Wihtgils; Wihtgils was the son of Witta, Witta of Wecta, Wecta of Woden. From this Woden arose all our royal kindred, and that of the Southumbrians also." His name appears as Victgils or Victgilsus in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Book 1, chapter 15): "The two first commanders are said to have been Hengist and Horsa. They were the sons of Victgilsus, whose father was Vecta, son of Woden; from whose stock the royal race of many provinces deduce their original."
  2. Title: Avalon Project
    Publication: Name: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/ang05.asp;
    Note: Names Wihtgils as son of Witta
  3. Title: Wikiwand: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle;
    Note: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great (r. 871–899). Multiple copies were made of that one original and then distributed to monasteries across England, where they were independently updated. In one case, the Chronicle was still being actively updated in 1154. Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of equal historical value and none of them is the original version. The oldest seems to have been started towards the end of Alfred's reign, while the most recent was written at Peterborough Abbey after a fire at that monastery in 1116. Almost all of the material in the Chronicle is in the form of annals, by year; the earliest are dated at 60 BC (the annals' date for Caesar's invasions of Britain), and historical material follows up to the year in which the chronicle was written, at which point contemporary records begin. These manuscripts collectively are known as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Chronicle is not unbiased: there are occasions when comparison with other medieval sources makes it clear that the scribes who wrote it omitted events or told one-sided versions of stories; there are also places where the different versions contradict each other. Taken as a whole, however, the Chronicle is the single most important historical source for the period in England between the departure of the Romans and the decades following the Norman conquest. Much of the information given in the Chronicle is not recorded elsewhere. In addition, the manuscripts are important sources for the history of the English language; in particular, the later Peterborough text is one of the earliest examples of Middle English in existence. Seven of the nine surviving manuscripts and fragments now reside in the British Library. The remaining two are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Composition All of the surviving manuscripts are copies, so it is not known for certain where or when the first version of the Chronicle was composed. It is generally agreed that the original version – sometimes known as the Early English Annals – was written in the late 9th century by a scribe in Wessex. Frank Stenton argued from internal evidence that it was first compiled for a secular, but not royal patron; and that “its origin is in one of the south-western shires...at some point not far from the boundary between Somerset and Dorset.” After the original Chronicle was compiled, copies were made and distributed to various monasteries. Additional copies were made, for further distribution or to replace lost manuscripts, and some copies were updated independently of each other. Some of these later copies are those that have survived. The earliest extant manuscript, the Winchester Chronicle, was written by a single scribe up to the year 891. The scribe wrote the year number, DCCCXCII, in the margin of the next line; subsequent material was written by other scribes. This appears to place the composition of the chronicle at no later than 892; further evidence is provided by Bishop Asser's use of a version of the Chronicle in his work Life of King Alfred, known to have been composed in 893. It is known that the Winchester manuscript is at least two removes from the original Chronicle; as a result, there is no proof that the Chronicle was compiled at Winchester. It is also difficult to fix the date of composition, but it is generally thought that the chronicles were composed during the reign of Alfred the Great (871–99), as Alfred deliberately tried to revive learning and culture during his reign, and encouraged the use of English as a written language. The Chronicle, as well as the distribution of copies to other centres of learning, may be a consequence of the changes Alfred introduced. Surviving manuscripts Of the nine surviving manuscripts, seven are written entirely in Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). One, known as the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome, is in Old English with a translation of each annal into Latin. Another, the Peterborough Chronicle, is in Old English except for the last entry, which is in early Middle English. The oldest (Corp. Chris. MS 173) is known as the Winchester Chronicle or the Parker Chronicle (after Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury, who once owned it). Six of the manuscripts were printed in an 1861 edition for the Rolls Series by Benjamin Thorpe with the text laid out in columns labelled A to F. He also included the few readable remnants of a burned seventh manuscript, which he referred to as [G]. Following this convention, the two additional manuscripts are often called [H] and [I]. The surviving manuscripts are listed below. Version Chronicle name Location Manuscript A Winchester (or Parker) Chronicle Parker Library, Corpus Christi College 173 B Abingdon Chronicle I British Library Cotton Tiberius A. vi C Abingdon Chronicle II British Library Cotton Tiberius B. i D Worcester Chronicle British Library Cotton Tiberius B. iv E Peterborough (or Laud) Chronicle Bodleian Library Laud misc. 636 F Bilingual Canterbury Epitome British Library Cotton Domitian A. viii G or A2 or W A copy of the Winchester Chronicle British Library Cotton Otho B. xi + Otho B. x H Cottonian Fragment British Library Cotton Domitian A. ix I An Easter Table Chronicle British Library Cotton Caligula A. xv Relationships between the manuscripts The manuscripts are all thought to derive from a common original, but the connections between the texts are more complex than simple inheritance via copying. The diagram at right gives an overview of the relationships between the manuscripts. The following is a summary of the relationships that are known. [A2] was a copy of [A], made in Winchester, probably between 1001 and 1013. [B] was used in the compilation of [C] at Abingdon, in the mid-11th century. However, the scribe for [C] also had access to another version, which has not survived. [D] includes material from Bede's Ecclesiastical History and from a set of 8th-century Northumbrian annals and is thought to have been copied from a northern version that has not survived. [E] has material that appears to derive from the same sources as [D] but does not include some additions that appear only in [D], such as the Mercian Register. This manuscript was composed at the monastery in Peterborough, some time after a fire there in 1116 that probably destroyed their copy of the Chronicle; [E] appears to have been created thereafter as a copy of a Kentish version, probably from Canterbury. [F] appears to include material from the same Canterbury version that was used to create [E]. Asser's Life of King Alfred, which was written in 893, includes a translation of the Chronicle's entries from 849 to 887. Only [A], of surviving manuscripts, could have been in existence by 893, but there are places where Asser departs from the text in [A], so it is possible that Asser used a version that has not survived. Æthelweard wrote a translation of the Chronicle, known as the Chronicon Æthelweardi, into Latin in the late 10th century; the version he used probably came from the same branch in the tree of relationships that [A] comes from. Asser's text agrees with [A] and with Æthelweard's text in some places against the combined testimony of [B], [C], [D] and [E], implying that there is a common ancestor for the latter four manuscripts. At Abingdon, some time between 1120 and 1140, an unknown author wrote a Latin chronicle known as the Annals of St Neots. This work includes material from a copy of the Chronicle, but it is very difficult to tell which version because the annalist was selective about his use of the material. It may have been a northern recension, or a Latin derivative of that recension. All the manuscripts described above share a chronological error between the years 756 and 845, but it is apparent that the composer of the Annals of St Neots was using a copy that did not have this error and which must have preceded them. Æthelweard's copy did have the chronological error but it had not lost a whole sentence from annal 885; all the surviving manuscripts have lost this sentence. Hence the error and the missing sentence must have been introduced in separate copying steps, implying that none of the surviving manuscripts are closer than two removes from the original version. History of the manuscripts Winchester Chronicle [A]: The Winchester (or Parker) Chronicle is the oldest manuscript of the Chronicle that survives. It was begun at Old Minster, Winchester, towards the end of Alfred's reign. The manuscript begins with a genealogy of Alfred, and the first chronicle entry is for the year 60 BC. The section containing the Chronicle takes up folios 1–32. Unlike the other manuscripts, [A] is of early enough composition to show entries dating back to the late 9th century in the hands of different scribes as the entries were made. The first scribe's hand is dateable to the late 9th or very early 10th century; his entries cease in late 891, and the following entries were made at intervals throughout the 10th century by several scribes. The eighth scribe wrote the annals for the years 925–955, and was clearly at Winchester when he wrote them since he adds some material related to events there; he also uses ceaster, or "city", to mean Winchester. The manuscript becomes independent of the other recensions after the entry for 975. The book, which also had a copy of the Laws of Alfred and Ine bound in after the entry for 924, was transferred to Canterbury some time in the early 11th century, as evidenced by a list of books that Archbishop Parker gave to Corpus Christi. While at Canterbury, some interpolations were made; this required some erasures in the manuscript. The additio...
  4. Title: "Rome's Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain, AD 250-500," by Nic Fields
    Author: Osprey Publishing, 2006
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=NC1Ub421g7EC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false;
  5. Title: Ancestral File (R)
    Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998.
    Note: NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other fair Source Media Type: Book. [PFT:AQ] [S:Titl] Ancestral File (R) [S:Auth] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [S:Publ] Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 [S:Note] NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other NS15403 Source Media Type: Other fair Source Media Type: Book [/PFT]
  6. Title: Old Saxony
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Old_Saxony;
  7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Witegeslus King of the Saxons -
    Author: Royal Index, University of Hull, England, Internet, Internet, www.dcs.hull.ac.uk
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332880681
  8. Title: Saxon Shore
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Saxon_Shore#/The_forts;
  9. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/collections/9289/records/2674832;
  10. Title: "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"
    Publication: Name: http://www.britannhttp://www.britannia.com/history/docs/asintro2.htmlia.com/history/docs/449-95.html;
  11. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Ancestry Family Tree
  12. Title: Wikiwand: Wihtgils
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wihtgils;
  13. Title: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Author: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Note: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  14. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/27503909;
  15. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.ca/collections/9289/records/31782130;
  16. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Witegeslus King of the Saxons - Individual or family possessions: male
    Note: Individual or family possessions: male
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2044367453
  17. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Ancestry Family Tree
  18. Title: Saxons
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Saxons#/History;
  19. Title: Peerage, The
    Author: Darryl Lundy, The Peerage, a genealogical survey of teh Peerage of Britian as well as the royal families of Europe(http://thepeerage.com : accessed 13 Aug 2019), Wihtgils;
    Note: Wihtgils (?) is the son of Uitta (?).2Child of Wihtgils (?) Hengist, King of Kent+1 d. c 488Citations [S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 64. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World. [S58] E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition (London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society, 1986), page 12. Hereinafter cited as Handbook of British Chronology.
  20. Title: Wikiwand: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle;
  21. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Ancestry Family Tree
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9000&h=4&indiv=try;
  22. Title: "The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar: With Copious Notes Illustrating the Structure of the Saxon and the Formation of the English Language : and a Grammatical Praxis with a Literal English Version : to which are Prefixed, Remarks on the History and Use
    Author: Harding, Mavor, and Lepard, 1823
    Note: Full Title: "The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar: With Copious Notes Illustrating the Structure of the Saxon and the Formation of the English Language : and a Grammatical Praxis with a Literal English Version : to which are Prefixed, Remarks on the History and Use of the Anglo-Saxon, and an Introduction, on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing, with Critical Remarks," by Joseph Bosworth
  23. Title: Wihtgils von Sachsen, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-4J8Z : 25 May 2022), Wihtgils von Sachsen, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 144371084, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-4J8Z;
    Page: It's logical.
  24. Title: Find a Grave: Wihtgils von Sachsen
    Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144371084;
    Note: Wihtgils von Sachsen BIRTH unknown Saxony (Sachsen), Germany DEATH unknown Saxony (Sachsen), Germany BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 144371084 Birth:385 Death:463 Family Members Parents Witta von Sachsen Children Hengest King of Kent

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