Caedwalla

Caedwalla

▪ king of Wessex
also spelled  Cadwalader  
born c. 659
died April 20, 689

      king of the West Saxons, or Wessex (from 685 or 686), who claimed descent from King Ceawlin. In his youth he was driven from Wessex and led the life of an outlaw, and in 685 he began harrying Sussex. In that year he obtained the Wessex throne and brutally invaded Sussex, then Kent and the Isle of Wight. Suddenly, in 688, he turned Christian, with the same devotion that he had previously shown as a warrior; and in the following year he resigned his kingship and journeyed to Rome, where he was baptized (April 10, 689) and, upon his death, buried at St. Peter's.

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