king Centwine of Wessex Other Cissa (bird), a genus of magpies This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cissa. If an internal...
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Cissa (/ˈtʃɪsɑː/) was part of an Anglo-Saxon invasion force that landed in three ships at a place called Cymensora in AD 477. The invasion was led by...
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Cissa was reported as the viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex (reigned c. 676–686). Cissa is sometimes said to have himself been a king of Wessex, but does...
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477 to 491, as follows: 477: Ælle and his 3 sons, Cymen and Wlencing and Cissa, came to the land of Britain with 3 ships at the place which is named Cymen's...
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south-west of Sussex. Ælle, the first king of the South Saxons was followed by Cissa of Sussex, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There is a 150-year gap...
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century AD. There may be a link with the 7th-century West Saxon nobleman Cissa. The hillfort was re-used in the Anglo-Saxon times as a burh, cited as Cyssanbyrig...
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country was annexed by Wessex, probably in 827, in the aftermath of the Battle of Ellendun. In 860 Sussex was ruled by the kings of Wessex, and by 927 all remaining...
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his son Cissa besiege Anderitum, the Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey, and kill all the Britons there. 495 Cerdic, later the first King of Wessex, lands at...
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(Here Ælle came to Britain and [with him] his 3 sons Cymen & Wlencing & Cissa, with 3 ships to the place which is named Cymenesora [probably now The Owers...
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of Chichester although within its modern boundaries. List of monarchs of Wessex List of English monarchs Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M. (1929). The Place-Names...
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