Cynegils
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cynegils Of Wessex
thumb|upright=1.2|Map of British peoples c. 600
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Cynegils
- Royalty.image
- Kengils - John Speed.JPG
- Royalty.caption
- A portrait of Cynegils at his theatre in a 17th-century Heptarchy map by John Speed
- Royalty.succession
- King of Wessex
- Royalty.reign
- c. 611 – c. 642
- Royalty.predecessor
- Ceolwulf
- Royalty.successor
- Cenwalh
- Royalty.house
- Wessex
- Royalty.issue
- CenwalhKyneburga (Cyneburg)?
- Royalty.burial_place
- Winchester Cathedral
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- Kengils - John Speed.JPG
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- date of death
- 0642-00-00
- date of birth
- 0575-01-01
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- Cynegils of Wessex
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thumb|upright=1.2|Map of British peoples c. 600
Cynegils () was King of Wessex from c. 611 to c. 642. Cynegils is traditionally considered to have been King of Wessex, even though the kingdoms of the Heptarchy had not yet formed from the patchwork of smaller kingdoms in his lifetime. The later kingdom of Wessex was centred on the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire but the evidence of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is that the kingdom of Cynegils was located on the upper River Thames, extending into northern Wiltshire and Somerset, southern Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and western Berkshire, with Dorchester-on-Thames as one of the major royal sites. This region, probably connected to the early tribal grouping known as the Gewisse, a term used by Bede for the West Saxons, lay on the frontier between the later kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia.