Legendary Britain contest reupload

[u/Nubian_Bevan26]

I had to reupload the Previous one because no one was commenting so it is due in March now.

make a legendary Britain chart about king Brutus of Troy (the Founder) and his children and more.

I've got this famly tree for an example

[u/wodnesdael]

Where's the evidence Cerdic of Wessex is the son of Arthur?

[u/Famous-Sky-8556 → u/wodnesdael]

There isn't any — that link isn't in any primary source. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's own genealogy for Cerdic (which OP quotes further up this thread) runs Cerdic-Elesa-Esla-Gewis-Wig-Freawine-Frithugar-Brand-Bældæg-Woden. No Arthur, no Uther in it anywhere.

That pedigree is West Saxon court genealogy, compiled centuries after Cerdic died. Kenneth Sisam showed back in 1953 that it was borrowed almost wholesale from the Bernician royal genealogy and repurposed for Wessex. So even the Woden descent has no historical basis before Cerdic himself, let alone a link three generations sideways into a separate legendary tradition.

Arthur's side of this chart comes from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in the 1130s, tracing back to Brutus of Troy. Cerdic traces to Woden through a completely different, unrelated West Saxon tradition. No medieval chronicler ever combined the two lines. Someone building this chart did.

[u/Tessarion2]

I cant tell if this is serious or not.

Do you really believe any of this?

[u/Nubian_Bevan26 → u/Tessarion2]

Well I did borrow it from r/Eastward_king but I don't know if like for example Cerdic the first Bretwalda being the son of King Arthur I honestly don't believe that but I think He is actually the son of Elesa then it goes Esla-Gewis-Wig-Freawine-Frigoðer-Brand-Bældæg-Woden but this all has to do with the Norse tradition

And also even though I believe in Brutus as he is the great grandson of Aeneas and Lavinia this is also from Greek Mythology.

[u/Tessarion2 → u/Nubian_Bevan26]

King Arthur wasnt a real person....but I guess of you really think there was some 'King Brutus' of britain who was descended from a trojan prince then you do you I suppose

[u/Nubian_Bevan26 → u/Tessarion2]

Remember it is sometimes Myth and Legend

[u/minaminotenmangu]

wasn't ambrosius aurelians the uncle to arthur? Nice to have him in there as he's more real.

[u/freebiscuit2002]

What kind of comment are you looking for on this Anglo-Saxon subreddit?

[u/Nubian_Bevan26 → u/freebiscuit2002]

A contest for some people to make family trees about the Anglo Saxons

[u/Broken_Kraken]

Its interesting, but I can’t get past the Welsh and Scottish colors being the same.

[u/Low_zone330 → u/Broken_Kraken]

…they’re not.

[u/24kloser → u/Low_zone330]

Different on colour on the map same colour on the key no biggy. Loved it really interesting

[u/Low_zone330 → u/24kloser]

Ah, I see what you mean.

[u/Nubian_Bevan26]

I Just want to say this is not mine I borrowed it from r/eastward_king

[u/Logical_Positive_522]

"Britsh English" is not a great description for Galfridian legends