Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ella
• Occupation: Ælle was the first king to have held "imperium", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
• _MILT: Ælle and Cissa besieged Andredes cester, and killed all who lived in there; there was not even one Briton left there

Notes:

Birth:
(now Northern Germany)

Buried:
He may have been buried with his weapons and ornaments in the usual mode of burial among the South Saxons

Died:
Ælle may have met his death in the disastrous battle of Mount Badon when the Britons halted Saxon expansion

Ælle married ElesaSaxony, Germany. Elesa was born in 443 in Saxony, Germany; died in 540 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
(now Northern Germany)

1. King of Anglo-Saxon Wessex Cerdic of Wessex was born in 467 in Saxony, Germany; died in 534 in England.

Notes:

Birth:
now Northern Germany

Esla married Elesa Gewisson. Elesa was born in 415 in Saxony, Germany; died in 499 in Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
now Northern, Germany

Died:
now Northern, Germany

Notes:

Birth:
now Northern, Germany

Died:
now Northern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• _MILT: Ket and Wig 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

Notes:

Birth:
His 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

Died:
now Northern Germany