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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Giwis - (son of Wig -).

    Notes:

    Biography:
    He is a legendary Germanic ancestor of Cerdic based on the Sisam hypothesis.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Elesa -

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Wig - (son of Freawine -).

    Notes:

    Biography:
    From Wikipedia:
    Ket and Wig appear in the Gesta Danorum as the sons of Frowin, the governor of Schleswig. Wig also appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the son of Freawine (Frowin) and father of Gewis, eponymous ancestor of the kingdom of Wessex and their kings, but this is thought to be a late manipulation, inserting these heroes into a pedigree borrowed from a rival royal house, in which the Bernician eponym Bernic was replaced by the Wessex Gewis.
    Their father Frowin/Freawine was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Athisl, and killed. King Wermund, who liked their father, subsequently raised Ket and Wig as his own. They later avenged their father, but they fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother-in-law, King Wermund's son Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in "single combat". This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings.

    Children:
    1. 1. Giwis -


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Freawine - (son of Brond -).

    Notes:

    Biography:
    From Wikipedia:
    Freawine, Frowin or Frowinus figures as a governor of Schleswig in Gesta Danorum and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an ancestor of the kings of Wessex, but the latter source only tells that he was the son of Frithugar and the father of Wig.
    In the Gesta Danorum, Frowin was the father-in-law of Offa of Angel (presented as a prince and later king of Denmark), whose father king Wermund liked both Frowin and his sons Ket and Wig.
    Frowin was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Athisl, and killed. He would later be avenged by his two sons Ket and Wig. However, the two sons fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother-in-law Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in "single combat". This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings.

    Children:
    1. 2. Wig -
    2. Ket -


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Brond - (son of Bældæg -).

    Notes:

    Biography:
    He is a legendary Germanic ancestor of Cerdic based on the Sisam hypothesis. He is the mythological grandson of Wôdan.

    Children:
    1. 4. Freawine -