40 ANNALS OP ROGER DE EOVEDEN. A.D. 849. ETHELBALD reigned five years. ETHELBERT reigned six years. ETHELRED, his brother, reigned five years. ALFRED the Learned reigned twenty-nine years. EDWARD reigned twenty-four years. ATHELSTAN, his brother, reigned sixteen years. EDMUND reigned six years and one day. EDRED reigned nine years and one day. EDWIN reigned three years and nine months. EDGAR the Just reigned sixteen years. EDWARD the Martyr reigned four years. ETHELRED, his brother, reigned thirty-eight j-ears. EDMUND Ironside reigned nine months. CANUTE, the Dane, reigned nineteen years. HAROLD, his son, reigned five years. HARDICANUTE reigned two years. EDWARD the Just reigned twenty-four years. HAROLD reigned nine months. WILLIAM the Bastard reigned twenty-one years. WILLIAM HUFUS reigned thirteen years. HENRT, the Lion of Justice, reigned thirty-five years and three months. In the year from the incarnation of our Lord 849, Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, was born in the district called Berkshire;53 the following is the order of his genealogical line. King Alfred was the son of king Ethelwulph, who was the son of Egbert, who was the son of Ealmund, who was the son of Eafeo, who was the son of Eoppa, who was the son of I_ngild. Ingild, and Ina, the famous king of the West Saxons, were two brothers ; this Ina went to Borne, and there ending this life, entered a heavenly country, there to reign with Christ. They were the sons of Coenred, who was the son of Ceolwald, who was the son of Cutha, who was the son of Cuth-win, who was the son of Ceaulin, who was the son of Cynrie, who was the son of Creda, who was the son of Cerdic, who was the son of Elesa, who was the son of Elta, who was the son of Gewis, from whom the Britons call all people of that nation by the name of Gewis ;54 he was the son of Wig, who was the 53 At Wantage. 54 He probably alludes to the West Saxons, or people of Wessex, who were called Gewissae.