Ine of Wessex
Ine, also rendered Ini or Ina, was King of Wessex from 689 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla. He abdicated in 726 to go to Rome, leaving the kingdom to “younger men” He was succeeded by Æthelheard.
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Ine, also rendered Ini or Ina, was King of Wessex from 689 to 726. At Ine’s accession, his kingdom dominated much of southern England. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had expanded West Saxon territory substantially. Ine is noted for his code of laws, which he issued in about 694. These laws were the first issued by an Anglo-Saxon king outside Kent. He abdicated in 726 to go to Rome, leaving, in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bede, the kingdom to “younger men” He was succeeded by Æthelheard. Early sources agree that Ine was the son of Cenred, and that Cen red was the sons of Ceolwald. Ini may have ruled alongside his father, Cen Red, for a period. There is weak evidence for joint kingships, and stronger evidence of subkings reigning under a dominant ruler in Wessex. Ina may have been able to prevent the upper Thames valley from being overrun by the West Saxons, though he had not been able in most of his reign to prevent this. He is the ancestor of Egbert and the subsequent kings of England. The genealogy of Ine and of the kings of. Wessex is known from two sources: the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle and the WestSaxon Genealogical Regnal List. The Chronicle was created in the late 9th century, probably at the court of Alfred the Great, and some of its annals incorporated short genealogies of kings of Wes sex.
These are often at variance with the more extensive information in theregnal list. These inconsistencies appear to result from the efforts of later chroniclers to demonstrate that each king on the list was descended from Cerdic, the founder, according to the Chronicle, of the West. Saxons’ eastern border was roughly equivalent to modern Devon and Cornwall. Beyond Sussex, Ine lay over the kingdom of Onumnonia, which included London and what is now southeast Surrey. To the west, Ceawlinon, known as Bristol Channel one hundred years before Ine, reached the southwestern peninsula, pushing back the boundary with the British kingdom of Dumnonia. The kingdom of Kent, Sussex, and Essex were no longer under West SaxON sway. InE maintained control of what isnow Hampshire, and consolidated and extended Wessex’s territory in the western peninsula. It was probably during Ine’s reign that the West saxons began to mint coins, though none have been found that bear his name. In e was born around 670 and his siblings included a brother, Ingild, and two sisters, Cuthburh and Cwenburg. Ingild is given as ancestor of king Egbert of Wes Sex, and Ine himself was married to Æthelfburg.
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