- Caedwalla of Wales - Cadwallader of…. - Cadwallador of…. -
Cadwalla of…. - Cadwallon of…. - Ceadwalla of…. - Cedualla of….
Son of Coenberht; descendent of King Ceawlin of Wessex in
England. Exiled, but later returned to reclaim the throne by
right, and by warfare. King of Wessex, which he expanded by
conquest, annihilating the pagan residents of the Isle of Wight
in the process in order to colonize it with his own people.
Converted to Christianity in 688 by Saint Wilfrid after being
wounded in combat on the Isle of Wight. He abdicated, and went
to Rome, Italy for baptism on 10 April 689 by Pope Saint Sergius
I, taking the name Peter. He died ten days later, still wearing
his white baptism robe. Venerable Bede wrote of him in his
History of the English Church. - Book of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate - Kirken i Norge - Medieval Religion Listserv, by John
Dillon - Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints - “Saint
Caedwalla of Wessex“. Saints.SQPN.com. 19 April 2013. Web. 24
May 2013. <>