House of Cerdic

House of Wessex

House of Wessex

Golden Wyvern of Wessex
Country	Kingdom of Wessex, Kingdom of England
Titles	King of Wessex King of England
Founder	Cerdic of Wessex
Final sovereign	Edward the Confessor
Founding	519
Dissolution	1093
Ethnicity	English (see details)

The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, refers to the family that ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex. This House was in power from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex to the unification of the Kingdoms of England.

The House, at this point, became rulers of all England (Bretwalda) from Alfred the Great in 871 to Edmund Ironside in 1016. This period of the British monarchy is known as the Saxon period, though their rule was often contested, notably by the Danelaw and later by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard who claimed the throne from 1013 to 1014, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Sweyn and his successors ruled until 1042. After Harthacanute, there was a brief Saxon Restoration between 1042 and 1066 under Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, who was a member of the House of Godwin. After the Battle of Hastings, a decisive point in British history, William of Normandy became king of England. Anglo-Saxon attempts to restore native rule in the person of Edgar the Ætheling, a grandson of Edmund Ironside who had originally been passed over in favour of Harold, were unsuccessful and William's descendants secured their rule. Edgar's niece Matilda of Scotland later married William's son Henry I, forming a link between the two dynasties.

Timeline of Wessex and England rulers

See also

References

• Stephen Friar and John Ferguson (1993), Basic Heraldry, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-03463-9
• Naismith, Rory (2011). "The Origins of the Line of Egbert, King of the West Saxons, 802–839". English Historical Review 76 (518): 1–16. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceq377.

Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wessex

Battery Bienvenue

Battery Bienvenue

Battery Bienvenue is a ruined coastal gun battery located in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It was built as part of the harbor defense of New Orleans, Louisiana and located at a strategic fork where Bayou Bienvenue and join. The Bayou Bienvenue approach to New Orleans from Lake Borgne was the route used by the British in the War of 1812 to approach the city.

The battery was first constructed in 1815 and improved over the years. The initial armament was planned for one 24 pounder and two 18 pounder cannons. In 1826, the plan expanded to twenty four 24/32 pounders and two 13 inch mortars with a garrison on one artillery company. Eventually four buildings occupied the parade, a barracks, officer quarters, a guardhouse and a magazine. The battery was about 600 feet wide with the guns pointed toward the mouth of Bayou Bienvenue (toward Lake Borgne) and was surrounded by a moat that connected to the bayou. The battery was abandoned after the American Civil War in 1872.

Sources

External Links

• [1] Military sites in Mississippi River delta

Coordinates: 29°59′7″N 89°52′52″W / 29.98528°N 89.88111°W

Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Bienvenue

Aldermen of Belfast City Council

Members of Belfast City Council

This is a list of the 51 members of Belfast City Council, elected at the local elections on 5 May 2011.

Electoral Wards

Belfast City Council currently comprises 51 electoral wards, nominally one for each elected councillor. However, as the PR-STV voting system requires multi-seat constituencies, the 51 wards are grouped into nine district electoral areas (DEA) which elect between 5 and 7 councillors each:

Councillors

Aldermen

The entitles the Council to appoint up to twelve of its members to the honorary position of alderman. The role of alderman is appointed at the first annual meeting following the election of the Council and does not carry any extra responsibilities other than the right to be referred to as an alderman rather than councillor. Following the local elections in 1997 and 2005 the Council voted not to appoint any of its members to the positions. All twelve places were filled after the May 2011 election and are listed below.

Results by party

Party		2011	+/-	2005	2001	1997	1993	1989	1985	1981	1977	1973
	Sinn Féin	16	+2	14	14	13	10	8	7	0	0	0
	Democratic Unionist Party	15	=	15	10	7	9	8	11	15	7	2
	Social Democratic and Labour Party	8	=	8	9	7	9	8	6	6	8	7
	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	6	+2	4	3	6	5	6	8	7	13	8
	Ulster Unionist Party	3	-4	7	11	13	15	14	14	13	15	25
	Progressive Unionist Party	2	=	2	3	3	1	1	1	1	0	0
	Other	1	=	1	1	2	2	6	4	9	5	9

Notes: † Workers' Party of Ireland (1973 = 2; 1977/85/89 = 1); ‡ Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (1977 = 2; 1981 = 1); ¤ Ulster Democratic Party (1997 = 1)

See also

References

1. "Your Councillors". Belfast City Council. http://minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=ALPHA&VW=LIST&PIC=0. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
2. "Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Council, Monday, 2nd June, 1997". Belfast City Council. http://minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk/Data/COUNCIL/19970602/Minutes/$minutes.doc.pdf#search=%22alderman%20election%22. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
3. "Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Council, Thursday, 26th May, 2005". Belfast City Council. http://minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk/Data/COUNCIL/20050526/Minutes/$minutes.doc.pdf#search=%22alderman%20appointment%22. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
4. "Aldermen". Belfast City Council. http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/lordmayor/aldermen.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
5. "Belfast City Council election results 2011". Belfast City Council. http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/elections/resultsbyparty.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-10.

Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_Belfast_City_Council#Aldermen