• Cwichelm is a masculine English given name. Notable people with the name include: Cwichelm of Wessex (died 636), Prince of Wessex Cwichhelm (bishop) (died...
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    Cwichelm ([ˈkwik.heɫm] QUICK-helm; died c. 636) was an Anglo-Saxon king of the Gewisse, a people in the upper Thames area who later created the kingdom...
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    King Edwin of Northumbria in 626 was ordered by Cwichelm, king of the West Saxons. Whether the King Cwichelm of 614 is the same person as the king of the...
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  • around 661, then he was perhaps a son of King Cwichelm or a grandson of Cynegils, if indeed King Cwichelm was not also a son of Cynegils. None of the West...
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  • son of King Cynegils, and thus a brother of King Cenwalh and maybe of Cwichelm, King of the Gewisse, but Aldhelm does not record any such relationship...
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  • Saxons), under Kings Cynegils and Cwichelm. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (A) states: 628. Here Cynegils and Cwichelm fought against Penda at Cirencester...
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    part of the annal reads: "Here Ceawlin and Cwichelm and Crida perished." Nothing more is known of Cwichelm and Crida, although they may have been members...
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    was the attempted assassination at York, at Easter 626, by an agent of Cwichelm of Wessex. Apart from these events, the general character of Bede's account...
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    rules from 611 to 643 and shares power to some extent with his eldest son, Cwichelm, who may have been given Upper Wessex (approximate date). The Four Gates...
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  • Cwichhelm or Cwichelm was a medieval Bishop of Rochester. Cwichhelm was consecrated probably around 676. He resigned the see in 678, and his date of death...
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    about two miles from the present church. Birinus baptised Cynegils's son Cwichelm (died 636) in 636 and grandson Cuthred (died 661) in 639, to whom he stood...
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  • ninth-century monarch Cuthred of Wessex, eighth-century monarch Cuthred son of Cwichelm of Wessex, seventh-century prince of the West Saxons MV Cuthred, an Isle...
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    members as his father. Possibly Celtic, Brythonic, name c. 626 to 636 Cwichelm Co-ruler with Cynegils, perhaps his son of this name. 643 to 645 Cenwalh...
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  • China, during the Tang dynasty. Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, converts Cwichelm (son of king Cynegils of Wessex) to Christianity. He dies soon afterward...
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  • (Bede, Hist. Eccl. ii. c. 5). This battle was fought against Cynegils and Cwichelm of Wessex, the West Saxon kings who invaded their territory with a larger...
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  • Northumbria King of Deira and Bernicia York, Northumbria  England Agents of Cwichelm of Wessex 1298 Dec Edward I King of England Westminster  England Merchants...
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    time between the Mercian king Penda and the West Saxon kings Cynegils and Cwichelm in 628. The minster church of Cirencester, founded in the 9th or 10th century...
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  • protector Y Y Helmut, Helmdrud, Helmfrid; Diethelm, Ealhhelm, Anselm, Cwichelm, Nothhelm, Wilhelm/William Hypocorism Helmo. Comparatively frequent from...
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  • Barwick-in-Elmet where Elmet's king's seat was. 614: (Here Cynegils and Cwichelm fought together at Beandun, and slew 2,066 Welsh.) 616: Autumn – Northumbria...
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  • recounts that earlier on the day that Eanflæd was born, an assassin sent by Cwichelm of Wessex made an attempt on Edwin's life. Afterward, Edwin, prompted by...
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    called Cwichelmeshlaew or Cwichelm's Barrow, it is recorded as having been the place where King Edwin of Northumbria killed Cwichelm of Wessex in AD 636 and...
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  • ruled for six years. Ceawlin died in exile the following year, along with Cwichelm and Crida, his brothers and commanders of the armies in what is now Dorset...
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    611, was baptised by Birinus, with King Oswald standing as godfather. Cwichelm was baptised the year after Cynegils, in 636, also by Bishop Birinus and...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 661 reports that both Cuthred, son of King Cwichelm, and Cenberht died in that year. This is the sole report of Cenberht in...
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    damage that Putta retired from the diocese and his appointed successor, Cwichelm, gave up the see "because of its poverty". In 762, the local overlord,...
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    battle between Penda and the West Saxons under their kings Cynegils and Cwichelm taking place at Cirencester in 628. If he was not yet king, then his involvement...
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    under one ruler to create the Kingdom of Northumbria. 614 Cynegils and Cwichelm of Wessex fight on the same side at Beandun, defeating the Welsh. 616 24...
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    possibly 669 676 Putta Resigned. Translated to Hereford. possibly 676 678 Cwichelm Resigned. possibly 678 bet. 699–716 Gebmund bet. 699–716 726 Tobias possibly...
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  • Rochester, Theodore of Tarsus, the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed Cwichelm as bishop of that see. The medieval chronicler Bede says Putta learned...
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    originally known as Cwichelmeshlaew or Cwichelm's Barrow, and is historically recorded as the site at which Cwichelm of Wessex was killed by Edwin of Northumbria...
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