II Witta von Sachsen

212 - Abt 347  (135 years)

• Name	Witta von Sachsen
  Title	II
  Birth	212
  Gender	Male
  Fact	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wecta
  Fact	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147472710/Wecta-von%20Sachsen
  Life Sketch	Although Wecta is mentioned as the father of Witta and the grandfather of Wihtgils in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum, the Prose Edda and the Anglian collection of Anglo-Saxon genealogies reverses the order of Witta and Wihtgils.
  Life Sketch	Wecta appears in the Prologue to the Prose Edda as Vegdeg, one of Woden's sons, a mighty king who ruled East Saxony.
  Life Sketch	Wecta is considered mythological, though he shows up in the genealogies as a Saxon ancestor of Hengest and Horsa and the kings of Kent, as well as of Aella of Deira and his son Edwin of Northumbria.
  Life Sketch	Wecta is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum.
  Specific+descendants	He was made ancestor to the royal house of Lindsey/Lindisfarne. This genealogy is found only in the Anglian collection, not in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
  Title of Nobility	King of the Saxons
  Title of Nobility	The Jute King of Saxons
  Title of Nobility	Abt 300
  	König von Sachsen
  _FSFTID	LLQR-VYG
  Death	Abt 347	Saxony, Germany
  Person ID	I61336	My Genealogy | Gent Tree received from familysearch
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Wecta Odinsson,   b. 163, Denmark d. DECEASED
  Family ID	F27946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Guddline von Sachsen Born de Rugie,   b. Europe d. DECEASED
  Children	1. III Wihtgils von Sachsen,   b. 262, Midtjylland, Denmark d. 434, Kent, England, United Kingdom (Age 172 years)
  Family ID	F27275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023