495AD.Cerdic arrived - Yarmouth is suggested as his landing site as one of its previous names was Cerdicksand - with his son Cynric and his followers in five ships and was immediately involved in battle with local forces.
At the time of his landing the Britons held the whole of the island, except Kent and Sussex, and battle after battle ensued as Cerdic began to carve out his own slice of Briton.
508AD. In a great battle at Netley Marsh Cerdic’s forces slew Natanleod a King of the Britons and five thousand of his men. Sharon Turner in “History of the Anglo Saxons” describes the battle: This was something like a national conflict between the two contesting races. Cerdic increased his own strength by auxiliary forces from the Saxons in Kent and Sussex, and Natanleod assembled the greatest army of Britons that hadyet met the Saxons together. He directed his main attack on their right wing, where Cerdic commanded, and drove it from the field; but, too eager in pursuit, he allowed this chieftain's son to move on him in the rear, and the victory was wrenched from his grasp. He fell with 5000 Britons, and such was the extent of his disaster, that all the region near the scene of conflict became afterwards called by his name.
519AD. Cerdic and Cynric fought with the Britons at Charford (West Hampshire) The fighting went on all day with neither side gaining the upper hand but in the evening they won the battle and in victory took over the government of the west Saxons.
527AD. Cerdic and Cynric did battle with the Britons at a place that is called Cerdices - Leah. (Old Sarum) (Salisbury) outcome not recorded. At some point Cerdic seems to have been appointed to the position of Bretwalda (overlord of the Saxons)
530AD. Cerdic and Cynric took the Isle of Wight and slew many men at Caribrook (Carisbrooke)
534AD. Cerdic handed over the Isle of Wight to his kinsmen, Stuf and Wihtgar. Cerdic dies in the same year.
There is a query as to whether Cerdic was a Saxon or a rogue Briton with Saxon connections -possibly through marriage - Cerdic is a British name not a Saxon one.
