Crossword-Solution: CISSA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This year came Ella to Britain, with his three sons, Cymen, and Wlenking, and Cissa, in three ships; landing at a place that is called Cymenshore.

This year Ella and Cissa besieged the city of Andred, and slew all that were therein; nor was one Briten left there afterwards.

After such a certain instance of philological blundering as this, I for one am not inclined to place great faith in such statements as that made by the _English Chronicle_ about Chichester, which it attributes to the mythical South Saxon king Cissa.

There reigned in that season within this land, beside the Britaine kings, eight kings of the English and Saxon nations, as Ethelbert in Kent, Cissa in Sussex, Ceauline in Westsex, Creda or Crida in Mercia, Erkenwine in Essex, Titila in Estangle, Elle in Deira, and Alfrid in Bernicia.

The end of the kingdome of the Southsaxons.] the Southsaxons, and ioined that kingdome vnto the kingdome of the Westsaxons: so that from thencefoorth the kingdome of those Southsaxons ceassed, after they had reigned in that kingdome by the space of five kings successiuelie, that is to say, Ella, Cissa, Ethelwalke, Berutius, and this last Aldinius or Ealdbright.