Cenred of Wessex

Cenred of Wessex was a member of the House of Wessex and a member of the direct male line from Cynric to Egbert. It is possible that Cenred ruled alongside his son Ine for a period. There is limited evidence for joint kingships, and a stronger evidence of subkings reigning under a dominant ruler in Wessex not long before his time. Ine acknowledged his father's help in his code of laws, and there is also a surviving land-grant that indicates Cenred was still reigning in Wessex after Ine's accession.

His father was Ceolwald of Wessex. Cenred had at least three other children. Ine, king of Wessex and married Æthelburg of Wessex Ingild, the great-grandfather of Ealhmund of Kent, and the great-great-grandfather of Egbert Cuthburh, who married Aldfrith of Northumbria, and became abbess of Wimborne Cwenburh, who may have succeeded her sister as abbess at Wimborne.