Ceawlin of Wessex King of Wessex [4861] ^{24,595,596,597}

   Another name for Ceawlin was also spelled "Ceaulin" or "Caelin").

  General Notes:

Acceded: 560

Reigned 560-591, deposed by Ceolric
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Ceawlin, King of Wessex, governed the West Saxons starting in 560 and reigned thirty winters. In 593 there was a great slaughter and he was driven from his kingdom, the year of his death.
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is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as being king of the West Saxons, or Wessex from 560 to 591 , and named by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum as the second Bretwalda . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records his death as occurring in 593 .

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 560.

• Deposed, 591.

Ceawlin married.