Acceded 560; reigned 560-591. Was deposed by Ceolric

Ceawlin, son of Synric, undertook the government of the West Saxons, 560, and reigned thirty winters. “In 560, Ethelbert came to the kingdom of Kent, and held it fifty-three winters. In his day the holy Pope Gregory sent us baptism. And Columbia, the mass-priest, came to the Picts . . . 591. This year there was a great slaughter of Britons at Wanborough; Ceawlin was driven from his kingdom . . . 593. This year died Ceawlin.” (“The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” 560, 568, 591, 593, 854; “Century Cyclopedia of Names,” 227)55