Gewis appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the son of Wig and a descendant of Woden. He's also described as the father of Esla, the father of Elesa, the father of Cerdic of Wessex who invaded Britain and founded the kingdom of Wessex. That an earlier pedigree of the kings of Bernicia's very similar, except that it's Bernic, eponymous ancestors of the Bernicians, in the same place as the later Wessex pedigree substitutes Gewis, eponymous ancestor of the Gewisse or West Saxons, has led to the s… (More on Gewis)