Editing Cynric (section)

== Conquest ==
The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' describes Cerdic and Cynric with five ships landing in the area around [[Southampton]] in 495.<ref>A theory specifically identifies the site of the landing, at Cerdicesora, as Christchurch Harbour so that the axis of penetration was along the Avon.</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Wessex to 1000 AD |last=Cunliffe |first=Barry |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=9780582492806 |location=Oxon |page=279}}</ref> According to the chronicle, the two are described as aristocratic "[[Alderman|aldormen]]" but only assumed rule over the [[Gewissae]] (as the West Saxons were known before the late 7th century) in 519.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Kleinschmidt |first=Harald |title=People on the Move: Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Migration in Medieval and Modern Europe |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=2003 |isbn=9780275974176 |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] |page=92 |language=en}}</ref> This implies that Cynric was not a royal leader. He and his father were only elevated to kingship when they allegedly conquered the heartlands of the future Wessex.