Editing Cynric (section)

{{Short description|King of Wessex from 534 to 560}}
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{{infobox royalty
| name         = Cynric
| image        = King-Cynric-of-Wessex-Coin.webp
| alt          = coin of a king
| caption      = Portrait on a [[Penny]]
| succession   = [[King of Wessex]]
| reign        = 534–560
| birth_date   = 
| death_date   = 560
| predecessor  = [[Cerdic]], possibly [[Creoda of Wessex|Creoda]]
| successor    = [[Ceawlin of Wessex|Ceawlin]]
| house        = [[House of Wessex|Wessex]]
| father       = [[Cerdic]] or [[Creoda of Wessex|Creoda]]
| issue        = [[Ceawlin of Wessex|Ceawlin]]<br/>Cutha or Cuthwulf<ref>According to the Online DNB article on [[Ceol]], he was the son of Cutha (probably Cuthwulf) and grandson of Cynric</ref>
}}

'''Cynric''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɪ|n|ˌ|r|ɪ|tʃ}}) was [[King of Wessex]] from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''. There, he is stated to have been the son of [[Cerdic of Wessex|Cerdic]], who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare |last=Bradbury |first=Jim |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |isbn=9781134598472 |location=London |page=20}}</ref> However, the [[Anglian King-list]] and parts of the [[West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List]] (which may partly derive from the Anglian King-list and was a source for the ''Chronicle''), instead says that Cynric was the son of Cerdic's son [[Creoda of Wessex|Creoda]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Arthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary |last=Reno |first=Frank |publisher=McFarland |year=2011 |isbn=9780786444205 |location=Jefferson, NC |page=83}}</ref> Similarly, the paternal genealogy of Alfred the Great given in Asser's ''The Life of King Alfred'', includes the name Creoda, while the account of the king's maternal ancestry in the same work calls Cynric son of Cerdic.<ref>David N. Dumville, "The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the Chronology of Early Wessex", ''Peritia'', 4 (1985), 21–66 (esp. pp. 59–60).</ref>