Editing Cædwalla (section)

== Sources ==
A major source for [[Kingdom of the West Saxons|West Saxon]] events is the ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'', written about 731 by [[Bede]], a [[Northumbria]]n monk and chronicler. Bede received a good deal of information relating to Cædwalla from Bishop [[Daniel of Winchester]]; Bede's interest was primarily in the [[Christianisation of the West Saxons]], but in relating the history of the church he sheds much light on the West Saxons and Cædwalla.<ref name=Yorke_128>{{Harvnb|Yorke|1990|pp=128–130}}.</ref> The contemporary ''[[Vita Sancti Wilfrithi]]'' or ''Life of St Wilfrid'' (by [[Stephen of Ripon]], but often misattributed to [[Eddius Stephanus]]) also mentions Cædwalla.<ref name=Blackwell_428>"Stephen of Ripon" in ''Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England''.</ref> Another useful source is the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', a set of [[annals]] assembled in Wessex in the late 9th-century, probably at the direction of King [[Alfred the Great]]. Associated with the ''Chronicle'' is a list of kings and their reigns, known as the [[West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List]]''.''<ref name=Yorke_128 /><ref>David N. Dumville, 'The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the Chronology of Early Wessex', ''Peritia'', 4 (1985), 21–66.</ref> There are also six surviving charters, though some are of doubtful authenticity. Charters were documents drawn up to record grants of land by kings to their followers or to the church and provide some of the earliest documentary sources in England.<ref name=ASP>{{cite web |url=http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=C%E6dwalla#charters |title=Anglo-Saxons.net 
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