Bloody King Linked To Saxon Beach Find (Caedwalla)

Isle Of Wight County Press (UK) ^ | 10-30-2003 | Richard Wright

[blam]

Anglo-Saxon England

[Spruce]

Kid finds magic holy sword BUMP!

[steplock]

"...the king reputed to have put a quarter of the Island population to the sword in his attempt to convert them to Christianity."

Is this the only thing this particular king was noted for? Or is there a specific reason to have this statement as the second sentence (HIGH PROFILE) in the article?

IMHO, typical of socialist/secularists - anything to denegrate Christianity at every opportunity.

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[Oztrich Boy]

Would you also get irate on behalf of Pol Pot if you read:
"...the ruler reputed to have put a quarter of the national population to the sword in his attempt to convert them to Communism."?

Inquiring minds want to know

[Defiant]

"The eigth century historian, the Venerable Bede, credits Caedwalla with converting the Jutish population of the Island to Christianity.

The first branch of "Jutes for Jesus"?

[Amerigomag]

Wonder where this historical trinket was before someone threw it on the beach.

[blam]

"Wonder where this historical trinket was before someone threw it on the beach."

I was wondering the same thing. My guess is that it was lost in battle. Who would throw away gold, even if it belonged to your enemy.

[steplock]

Knowing the socialist/communist bent to abolish Christianity, I simply asked a question.

Did YOU get irate at my question?

[Amerigomag]

My guess is that it was lost in battle

My guess is that it was tossed onto the beach before the last 100 year storm, probably in the last few months or years since gold abrades very easily in a surf zone and this trinket had remarkable detail.

[Oztrich Boy]

Knowing the tendency of some on this board to denegrate Marxism/Communism at every opportunity (not that there's anything wrong with that), I simply asked a question.

It's called holding all of humanity to the same standard.

[derlauerer]

Is this the only thing this particular king was noted for? Or is there a specific reason to have this statement as the second sentence (HIGH PROFILE) in the article?

A Google search on the name "Caedwalla" turns up just over 1000 references, one of which is this page, which says, in part:

"The history of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of the island is unclear. Documentary and archaeological evidence indicates that the earliest settlers in Kent and the Isle of Wight were distinct from those of other parts of south-east England. Bede recorded that these people were Jutes, and not Angles or Saxons. The initial phase of settlement took place in the late fifth or early sixth century. The island appears to have remained independent of the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until the middle of the seventh century when Wulfhere, King of Mercia, captured it. Wulfhere promptly gave it to one of his vassals, Aethelwalh, King of the South Saxons. It has been suggested that several villages, such as Arreton, Brading, Carisbrooke and Freshwater, were founded during the reign of Aethelwalh. In 686, the West Saxon Caedwalla killed Aelthelwalh on the mainland. Caedwalla then invaded the Isle of Wight, exterminated the inhabitants and settled it with his own followers from the mainland. From that time the island became an integral part of the kingdom of Wessex."

Since another page, also found in the same search, shows that Caedwalla only reigned for two years, the answer to your question is very likely "yes".

[FreedomCalls]

It is possible it belonged to Caedwalla himself

Given that there is absolutely not one scintilla of evidence that indeed this belonged to a king or anyone else of significance other thatn its value, it is a far stretch to make that leap.

[wideminded]

I recall reading that all the early crown jewels of England were lost when the party transporting them for King John took a shortcut across the Wash and were hit by the incoming tide. The point where this happened is supposed to be inland now. If the story is true, it would be a fascinating archeological find if the jewels ever turn up.

[VadeRetro]

IMHO, typical of socialist/secularists - anything to denegrate Christianity at every opportunity.

Yeah! What a cheap shot! So he killed one lousy quarter of the population of the Isle of Wight. And he's famous for that?

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It's nice that they offer to pay the finder, instead of just claiming it as state property.

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[Varda]

I agree with your post. This is just a slam on Christinaity. Bede's "Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum" doesn't say that Caedwalla was converting the people by the sword, it says that he was exterminating them.

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"It's nice that they offer to pay the finder, instead of just claiming it as state property."

Yup, the Brits have a law like that, it rewards the finder. I've seen a lot of articles refer to this 'reward'. It encourages people to bring all sorts of things to public view.