Ine, Wessex King of England
Compiled by D. A. Sharpe
Ine is the 13th great grand
uncle of "Count Poitou" William, the 14th great grand uncle of
Sir Edward Southworth, the first husband of Alice Carpenter, my 7th great
grandmother. My descending from
her is through her second husband, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford, a
leader among the Mayflower passengers landing in America in 1620, and who was
the principal composer of the Mayflower Compact.
Ine was King
of Wessex
from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his
predecessor, C¾dwalla, who had brought much of
southern
England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory
substantially. By the end of Ine's reign, the
kingdoms of Kent, Sussex,
and Essex
were no longer under West Saxon domination; however, Ine
maintained control of what is now Hampshire,
and consolidated and extended Wessex's territory in
the western peninsula.
Ine is noted for his code of
laws (leges Inae or
"laws of Ine"), which he issued in about
694. These laws were the first issued by an Anglo-Saxon
king outside Kent. They shed much light on the history of Anglo-Saxon society,
and reveal Ine's Christian convictions. Trade
increased significantly during Ine's reign, with the
town of Hamwic (now Southampton)
becoming prominent. It was probably during Ine's
reign that the West Saxons began to mint coins, though none have been found
that bear his name.
Ine abdicated in 726
to go to Rome, leaving, in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bede, the kingdom
to "younger men." He was succeeded by ®thelheard.
"King
Ina reigned thirty-seven winters, and fought at Wanborough in 715. In 728, he went to Rome, and there
gave up the ghost."
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American
Colonists Who Came toAmerica before 1700,? seventh edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions
and Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., GenealogicalPublishing
Company, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, 1992, Library ofCongress
Card #92-73801, ISBN 0-8063-1367-6, Page 1.
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