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1. CERDIC, d. 534, King of the West Saxons, 519-534, was a Saxon earldorman who founded a settlement on the coast of Hampshire, England, in 495, assumed the title of King of the West Saxons in 519. and became the ancestor of the English royal line (ASC, Dorothy Whitelock, Editor, see dates 495, 519, 530, 534, CCN, 230, William G. Searle, Anglo-Saxon bishops, Kings, and Nobles (1899), 330-351; ES II/77)