Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that Cerdic is purely a legendary figure, but this is a minority view. The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", the earliest source for Cerdic, was put together in the late ninth century; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening 400 years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate. The annals of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", along with the genealogical descents embedded in that source's accounts of later kings, describe Cerdic's succession by his son Cynric. However, the Genealogical Regnal List that served as preface to the "Chronicle" manuscripts instead interposes a generation between them, indicating that Cerdic was father of Creoda and grandfather of Cynric.