ABSTRACT
This chapter will examine a very specific issue: the process by which the royal house of Wessex became interested in the cult of its own kindred and enshrined them in dynastic monasteries, ruled by members of that same kindred. In so doing, it will also address a wider, and, some may think, a more significant, subject: namely the attitude of the new West Saxon monarchy, which was establishing itself in the half-century or so after the Danish onslaught, to the church and to its role within the state.
