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Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
Theods of Suth Saxe
Codhelmingas
Center: Codelming (Codalming)
Aetheling: Codhelm 505-518
An offshoot of Woccingas. Godhelm broke away from
Wulfric, son of Wocca. in 505, establishing his own
theod. Relations between the two aethelings were
strained. Godhelm took brief advantage of the Badon
campaign to plunder his rival’s theod.
Haestingas
Center: Haestingaceaster (Hastings)
Aetheling: Haesta 449-462. Herewulf 462-478. Cenwal 478-
503, Coenhelm 503-518
The Haestingas theod is fully described in Chapter 5.
Meallingas
Center: Mealling (South Malling)
Aetheling: Aelle son of Mealla 477-518
The land between the Ouse and Cuckmere Rivers was
ceded to Aelle by Aurelius. It was bordered on the east by
the fortified town of Anderida until Aelle conquered it
and sacrificed its inhabitants in 491. Aelle steadily expanded
westward until his lands abutted those of the
Staeningas. After Badon, the land was granted as a
Barony to Sir Elias, a knight of Carlion. He subsequently
died, leaving the town of Mealling and many other
parcels of land to the church.
Staeningas
Center: Staenning (Steyning)
Aetheling: Stan 487-497. Siward 497-499, lcel 499-516, lngeld
516-518
Settled in 487 by Stan, a Frisian chieftain, the Staeningas
theod was squeezed in the east by Aelle’s cyningdom, and
in the west by Port’s. The Staeningas lost land on both
sides until they submitted to Aelle in 517.
Sunningas
Center: Sunning (Sonning)
Aetheling: Sunna 505-518
An offshoot of Woccingas. Sunna sailed with Wocca and
Godhelm in the summer of 503, settling north of the
Thames. For Wocca’s life, Sunna was a faithful ealdorman,
but he repudiated Wulfric and ruled Sunningas in his
own name after Wocca’s death. The Sunningas’ lands
were ravaged by both Saxon and Cymric forces in the
fighting that preceded Badon.
Woccingas
Center: Woccingas (Woking)
Aetheling: Wocca 503-505; Wulfric 505-518
Wocca, Codhelm, and Sunna led a great fleet up the
Thames River while London was in Saxon hands, and settled
the lands that hold their names. Originally the three
theods were one, held by Wocca, but his death in 505,
and the unpopularity of his son Wulfric. fragmented it
into the three theods of Sunningas, Woccingas, and
Godhelmingas
Theods of West Saxe
Noxgaga
Center: Hantonne
Aetheling: Cerdic and Cynric 495-518
Cerdic and Cynric, son and grandson of Vortigern, landed
here in 495. They defeated the Belgae, founded
Hantonne, and finally killed Natanleod, the last Belgae
king, at Winchester in 508. Winchester is mostly abandoned
until after the Battle of Badon, when it is rebuilt as
Camelot.
Ochtgaga
Center: Brocheherst (Brockenhurst)
Aetheling: Cerdic and Cynric 514-518
Nephews of Cerdic and Cynric, Stuf and Whitgar landed
with three shiploads of eager warriors and conquered
existing theods in the Ytene Forest (Camelot Forest), giving
Cerdic and Cynric control of the lands between
Hantonne (Southhampton) Water and the Witham River.
Stuf and Whitgar were rewarded with the Isle of Wight
for their effort. After Badon, most of Ochtgaga becomes
the Royal Forest. Its Saxons are dispossessed by Arthur,
their hamlets burned and their lands returned to wilderness.
Wihtwara
Center: Wihtgaraesburh (Carisbrooke)
Aetheling: Cerdic and Cynric 503-514, Stuf and Whitgar 514-518
Cerdic and Cynric overran the Isle of Wight in 503 after
the death of the infamous Roman Praefecti Classis
(Admiral) Septemius Nauticus. They then jointly ruled
both Wight and Noxgaga until 514, when they gave the