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The Ancestry of the kings of Britain has long attracted historians' interest because the monarchs of Britain trace their lineage from them. An early king on record outside of the legendary genealogies is called Creoda mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry 519 and in the B, C, and D version, although not listed as a king. Creoda has been deleted from some of the genealogies. Nicholas Brooks has suggested that a different Creoda (or Crida) was the founder and first king of the House of Mercia.

Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote a legendary chronology of the kings and legendary kings of Britain in the Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136 CE. Ancestry has also been studied through "genealogies"; lists of names in various manuscripts. Ancestries include the Ancestry of the kings of Wessex and the Ancestry of the kings of Mercia. Scholarly analysis suggests the early part of some versions are largely an invention of the 8th and 9th centuries. They provides lines of names stretching from Godulf Geoting, presumably ruler of a Kingdom before Woden to Eanfrith, Aldfrið or Pybba and onwards. They have variations in a number of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies.

Manuscripts include references to names from the Kingdom of Lindsey, a settlement in the northeast of Britain that rose to prominence in the early years of settlement by the Angles. Little is known of the Kingdom and the people are not recorded participating in the wars of the seventh and eighth centuries. Frank Stenton suggested the Caedbaed may have ruled around 570 CE. He suggests "the hint of early intercourse between Angles and Britons given by the name of King Caedbaed is strengthened by the fact that Lindsey itself is a British name"

The list of names in the different genealogies give the following pedigrees:

Legendary kings before Woden or Weothulgeot Semi-Legendary kings after Woden or Weothulgeot