The Gewisse (Old English: [jeˈwisːe] ye-WEES-se; Latin: Geuissæ) were a tribe or ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons. Their first location, mentioned in early...

been known to contemporaries as king of the Gewissae, a folk or tribal group. The first king of the Gewissae to call himself 'King of the West Saxons',...

are described as aristocratic "aldormen" but only assumed rule over the Gewissae (as the West Saxons were known before the late 7th century) in 519. This...

Oxford University Press, pp. 32–46. Walker, H. E. (1956). "Bede and the Gewissae: The Political Evolution of the Heptarchy and Its Nomenclature". The Cambridge...

Notes Kingdom of the Gewissae Cerdicing dynasty 519 to 534 Cerdic Possibly Celtic, Brythonic, name. King of Wessex (King of the Gewissae) 534 to 560 Cynric...

states that Cædwalla was a "daring young man of the royal house of the Gewissæ", and gives his age at his death in 689 as about thirty, making the year...

Danube, possibly related to the Goths Romania Jordanes, Procopius Gewisse, Gewissæ Saxon ethnic group in Britain At the end of the 5th century on the Upper...

writes: "After Caedwalla had obtained possession of the kingdom of the Gewissae, he took also the Isle of Wight, which till then was entirely given over...

the island. "AFTER Caedwalla had possessed himself of the kingdom of the Gewissae, he also took the Isle of Wight, which till then was entirely given over...

returned home in anger...in 591 a new king is said to have ruled over the Gewissae (West Saxons)... wars between the English drove him (Cealin) back to his...