Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Children:
  1. Ceawlin King Of West Saxons Death: 593
  2. Cuthwulf Death: 571
  3. Ceolwulf
  4. Cutha
  5. Cwichelm Death: 593

Bibliography
  1. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES II #[0-9]*].
  2. Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].
  3. Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p[0-9]*].
  4. Partridge, Craig, Ancestry of Ine, King of Wessex, in The Genealogist, vol 15, Spring 2001, pp80-98. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Partridge Ina p[0-9]*].
  5. Baldwin, Stewart, Anglo Saxon Chronicle - Cerdic & Cynric etc.. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/9/1998. Subject: Anglo Saxon Chronicle - Cerdic & Cynric etc.. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/WZN9hxGS8ys/m/D-4pu-2XX3MJ. Author address: sbald at auburn dot campus dot mci dot net. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Stewart Baldwin SGM 8/9/1998].
  6. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].
  7. Yorke, Barbara, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England, Seaby: London, 1990. NYPL JFE 91-7874. Available at http://www.cultorweb.com/eBooks/Storia/ Kings%20and%20Kingdoms%20of%20Early%20Anglo-Saxon%20England.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Yorke AngloSaxonKings p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: ES II #77, Weis AR7 #1, Yorke AngloSaxonKings p134]
Cerdic, or may have been Creoda, son of Cerdic [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p3]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
father:
Creda (d.534) King Of West Saxons [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p15]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ES II #77, Moriarty Plantagenet p15, Paget HRHCharles p3, Weis AR7 #1]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: ES II #77, Moriarty Plantagenet p15, Paget HRHCharles p3, Weis AR7 #1, Yorke AngloSaxonKings p134]
Research Notes:
534-560: King of the West Saxons [Ref: Weis AR7 #1]
King #2 [Ref: Yorke AngloSaxonKings p134]

appears to have landed in Britain as a boy or young man, placing his birth in the period 512-532 [Ref: Partridge Ina p94]

552: This year Cynric fought with the Britons on the spot that is called Sarum, and put them to flight. [Ref: Weis AR7 #1]

556: This year Cynric and Ceawlin fought at Beranbury [Ref: Weis AR7 #1]

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for year 855, giving the pedigree of Aethelwulf, gives a different pedigree for Ine (King#12), by the inclusion of Creoda as the son of Cerdic and father of Cynric; elsewhere in the Chronicles Cynric is Cerdic's son. [Ref: Yorke AngloSaxonKings p142-3]

ancestry is problematic, large due to Creoda. Inserting Creoda between Cerdic and Cynric causes Cerdic to die implausibly old. Accepting Yorks's hypothesis that multiple pedigrees were conflated helps explain why the muddle exists, but does not allow us to sort it out. Therefore, the exact relationship between Caewlin, Cynric, Creoda, and Cerdic has not been established [Ref: Partridge Ina p98]

As for the problem with Creoda, he seems to appear in the earlier genealogies, and is omitted from the later ones given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it appears that whoever rewrote the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to expand the arrival of Cerdic back to 495 also chose to omit Creoda from the genealogy. Thus, assuming again that Cerdic and Cynric existed at all, the version in which Cynric is son of Creoda and grandson of Cerdic seems more likely than the alternative in which Cerdic is Cynric's father. You should be aware, however, that the genealogy of nearly all early kings of Wessex (and not just Cerdic and Cynric) is subject to numerous inconsistencies and uncertainties. For one attempt to clean up the mess of early West Saxon genealogy (not necessarily correct, but a good read nonetheless), see the article "Problems of Early West Saxon History" by D. P. Kirby, in "English Historical Review" 80 (1965), 10-29. (The pre-Cerdic generations in the "official" West Saxon genealogy were shown to be fabrications by K. Sisam in his article "Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies" in "Proceedings of the British Academy" 39 (1953), 287-348.) [Ref: Stewart Baldwin SGM 8/9/1998]



Pedigree of Cynric King Of West Saxons
 /-----Cerdic King Of West Saxons
Cynric King Of West Saxons



Descendants of Cynric King Of West Saxons
1. Cynric King Of West Saxons m.

2nd generation

2. Ceawlin King Of West Saxons m.
3. Cuthwulf m.
4. Ceolwulf m.

3rd generation

7. Cuthwine m.
8. Ceolric King Of Wessex m.
9. Ceolwulf King Of Wessex m.
10. Cuthgils m.

4th generation

11. Ceadda m.
12. Cynebald m.
13. Cuthwulf m.
14. Cynegils King Of Wessex m.
15. Cuthgils m.
16. Cenferth m.

5th generation

17. Coenbert m.
18. Aethelbald m.
19. Ceolwald m.
21. Cwichelm m.
22. Cenwalh King Of Wessex m1. (Unk) Of Mercia m2. Seaxburh Queen Of Wessex
m. (Unk) Of Mercia father: Pybba King Of Mercia
m. Seaxburh Queen Of Wessex
23. Centwine King Of Wessex m.
26. Cenferth m.
27. Cenfus m.