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  Sussex Realty
It corresponds roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex, bounded on the north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire.
Sussex remained in use as a ceremonial county until 1974, when the Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex was replaced with one each for East and West Sussex.
The county is not wholly on the southward slope, for in the middle northern district it contributes a small drainage area to the Thames basin, and the river Medway rises in it.
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 Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 597 AD-687 AD
The authority of the latter are disputed by the Saxon Church.
Wulfhere sponsors Aethelwalh's conversion to Christianity and the latter marries Princess Eafa, daughter of King Eanfrith of Hwicce, another Mercian sub-king.
The exiled Prince Caedwalla of Wessex invades Sussex and, though he kills King Aethelwalh, is driven out by the new joint Kings Berhtun and Andhun.
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 Mercia - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At the same time he conquered the Isle of Wight, which he gave to Æthelwalh, king of Sussex.
Between the years 66r and 665 he was defeated by the Northumbrian king Ecgfrith and had to give up Lindsey.
In his reign the dynasties of Kent, Sussex and the Hwicce seem to have disappeared, or at all events to have given up the kingly title.
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 Kingdom of Sussex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of Sussex now becomes a blank until 607, in which year Ceolwulf of Wessex is found fighting against the South Saxons.
According to Bede, Æðelwealh, king of Sussex, had been previously baptized in Mercia at the suggestion of Wulfhere, who presented him with the Isle of Wight and the district about the Meon.
The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was compiled.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Sussex, UK
West Sussex is bordered by East Sussex to the east (obviously), Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the North.
East Sussex is bordered really on two sides — West Sussex to the west (again, obvious) and Kent which sort of curves protectively around it and almost, but not quite, prevents it from coming into contact with the corrupting riches and delicacies of Surrey and London.
Sussex County, DE was claimed by William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) after a local border dispute that eventually led to the establishment of the Mason-Dixon line.
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 Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Sussex
Sussex becomes a dependency of Mercia and is ruled by sub-kings.
The sub-kingdoms of Essex, Sussex and Suthrige submit to Egbert.
Sussex is ruled by sub-kings in Kent who answer to the Wessex monarch.
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 Sussex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sussex, the Kingdom of the South-Saxons, approximated to the area of the modern counties of East and West Sussex.
By 765, charters suggest that at least two of the kings of Sussex had become subject to Offa of Mercia.
Following the defeat of Beornwulf of Mercia, by Ecgberht of Wessex, in 825, and the subsequent expulsion of the incumbent ruler of Kent, one Baldred, by Ecgberht's son, Æthelwulf; Kent, Sussex, Essex (and also Surrey) surrendered to Wessex.
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 Angelsaksernes sosiale struktur 450-750.
Det ser vi i Kent og i Sussex og blant Hwicce.
Bede refererte til dåpen til kong Æthelwalh av Sussex som ble foretatt i Mercia etter oppfordring fra kong Wulfhere (658-674) av Mercia.
Etter Offa var det ikke flere konger i Sussex, Lindsey eller Hwicce.
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 Regno_del_sussex le informazioni qui a it.a-life-coach-in-the-uk.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Il Sussex torna a far palrare di sè nel 607, anno in cui i suoi eserciti si scontrarono con quelli di re Ceolwulf del Wessex.
Secondo san Beda il Venerabile, re Aethelwalh del Sussex era già stato battezzato in precedenza nella Mercia su suggerimento di re Wulfhere, che gli aveva dato in cambio l'isola di Wight e altre terre.
E nel 772 [4] lui stesso fece una concessione territoriale nel Sussex, dato che è probabile che attorno a quel periodo egli avesse definitivamente annesso il regno, dato che Osmund, Ælfwald e Oslac usavano ora in titolo di dux, mentre prima avevano usato quello di rex.
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 Selsey | British History Online
The parish is bounded on the south and east by the sea, on the north by the lagoon known as Wythering Haven and later as Selsey, or Pagham, Harbour, and on the west by a branch of this harbour which formerly connected with the sea at the south-west of the parish.
Wilfrid, Bishop of York, being exiled from his northern see, came to Sussex, where he was received by the local king, Æthelwalh, in 681.
Shortly after this Caedwalla, King of Wessex, established his authority over the South Saxons and when Wilfrid wished to found a monastery it was Caedwalla, with the assent of Æthelwalh, who endowed it in 683 with extensive territories, including Selsey, (fn.
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The Kingdom of Sussex,, was one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon
Ecgfrith, retired into Sussex, where he remained until 686 converting its pagan inhabitants.
Aethelwalh, king of Sussex, had been previously baptized in
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 Mercias storhetstid.
Sussex ble også en provins under Mercia i Offas regjeringstid.
Sussex hadde aldri i historisk tid vært et eget kongedømme.
Cenwulfs autoritet ble anerkjent i Sussex, Essex og East Anglia og i Kent.
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It would appear that Sussex was now being ruled by West Saxon nominees; they may have been joint kings (with Nunna as the probable senior ruler), or there may have been some kind of territorial division.
Sussex remained a Mercian possession until c.825, when it was absorbed into the West Saxon kingdom.
Ravaging of Kent, Sussex, and the Isle of Wight is recorded and Bede wrote of the South Saxons being reduced ‘to a state of slavery’ and of a major slaughter of the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight who were replaced by people from his own kingdom (Bede, Hist.
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 The Heroic Age: The Ripon Connection?
Wilfrid's family continued to control the monastery in Sussex through the early eighth century.
His first visit to Sussex is in a near ship wreck where Wilfrid commands his armed retainers to attack the hostile pagans, and they survive and sail away due to their military success (
Wilfrid gained many estates in Sussex and on the Isle of Wight from this switch in patrons (HE 4.15-16).
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 History of Sussex - The Sussex Kings
Seven main kingdoms emerged from the chaos, and became known as the Heptarchy.
The seven were Essex, Sussex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex, East Anglia.
In, roughly, the middle of this period of Anglo-Saxon domination of Britain, the kingdom of Wessex established supremacy over the other leading kingdoms, and their line of rulers became the first to have claim to the title of King of All England.
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 Anglo-Saxon resources -
The authority of the latter are disputed by the Saxon Church.
Wulfhere sponsors Aethelwalh's conversion to Christianity and the latter marries Princess Eafa, daughter of King Eanfrith of Hwicce, another Mercian sub-king.
Bishop Wilfred of Hexham dies at Oundle and is buried at Ripon Abbey.
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 Goldsworth Timeline : After the Romans to Anglo Saxons | Goldsworth Park Community Association | Window on Woking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Surrey's northern border is the River Thames and the eastern border with Kent consolidated by a ditch.
Aethelwulf (Ethelwulf) is King of Surrey, Essex, Kent and Sussex (825-839).
Athelstan is King of Surrey, Kent, Essex and Sussex (839-851 or 856).
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 Königreich Sussex | THG Lexikon
Das Königreich Sussex war ein angelsächsisches Königreich des frühen Mittelalters.
Damit entsprach es weitgehend der heutigen, aus den beiden Counties West Sussex und East Sussex bestehenden Landschaft Sussex.
Insbesondere Wessex dominierte zunehmend den Süden der Insel, wie sich etwa an der de facto Herrschaft Caedwallas von Wessex über Sussex in den 690er Jahren zeigt.
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 purl.org/kryptos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is generally believed to have arisen from the final union of the various kingdoms under Alfred in 886.
Archaeological explorations have indicated that Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established in Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and Essex in the latter part of the 5th century, as well as East Anglia, Lindsey (now Lincolnshire), Deira (now East Yorkshire) and the Isle of Wight.
The exiled Prince Caedwalla of Wessex invades Sussex, kills King Aethelwalh, but is driven out by Kings Berhtun and Andhun.
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 Wessex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It appears that Waldhere had to seek leave to attend a meeting to resolve the dispute (to be held at Brentford), from Berhtwald, since the West-Saxons were being flballed because they had not complied with the archbishop's request to divide their diocese.
For as he was returning from Rome, his son aforesaid, with all his counsellors, or, as I ought to say, his conspirators, attempted to perpetrate the crime of repulsing the king from his own kingdom; but neither did God permit the deed, nor would the nobles of all Saxony [i.e.
Barbara Yorke ('Wessex in the Early Middle Ages'): "Asser's words are not without ambiguity and it is not clear whether 'the eastern districts' are Kent, Sussex, Surrey and the East Saxons or the eastern portion of the Wessex heartlands.
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 BROUGHT TO BOOK: LORDSHIP AND LAND IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by David Roffe
However, it was omitted from the Exchequer text and replaced with a statement that land was held libere, that is freely.
In allodio, 'in freehold', is used in Circuits I (Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, and Hampshire) and V (Gloucester, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire) in a similar fashion, and, like commendatio, the two terms are probably employed to draw the distinction between the respective rights of the commendation and soke lords.
Selsey (Sussex) and its dependent vills were apparently granted with free men as well as land and slaves by King Æthelwalh to St Wilfred in the seventh century, and sources such as Æthelwulf's first Decimation of 844 show that typical socage services like riding, farm, and witeræde were due from them.
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 Shoreham-by-Sea Page 4: Historical Snippets including the escape of Charles II
At that time their King was Aethelwalh (from Encyclopaedia Britannica).
New Schoreham was also known as Hulkesmouth after the ships known as HULCS that were the main trading vessels in European seas during Medieval times.
It was the same design as the famous Chain Bridge that crosses the River Danube between Buda and Pest in Hungary.
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 EBK: St. Wilfred the Elder, Bishop of York, Part 2
Here he remained for some months and, even when, at the intercession of some of his friends, he regained his liberty, he was not allowed to remain in the Northumbrian Kingdom.
The men of Sussex and the adjoining Meonware (of south-east Hampshire), Bede tells us, were ignorant of the name and faith of God.
In AD 681, King Aethelwalh of Sussex gave him a parcel of land at Selsey, upon which to found a cathedral, and for another four years, lovingly and patiently, Wilfred laboured amongst them.
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 Caedwalla of Wessex - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Caedwalla was related the son of Cenberht and with the king house of Wessex, however he had been banished from the country and pierced themselves as a young more independently “being lord”, whereby he broke in in Sussex and killed the there king Aethelwalh, whose country he covered with war and plundering.
However he was driven out soon by the field gentlemen Berthun and Andhun, whom after death Aethelwalhs the rule to Sussex transferred.
From there it pulled with its army further eastward after Kent, whose king could defeat Eadric it; the invasion took place together with king Sighere from Essex, which Caedwalla could win as confederates.
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 EBK: Historical Chronology of the Early Saxon Kingdoms AD 650-692
Wulfhere sponsors Aethelwalh's conversion to Christianity and the latter marries Princess Eafa, daughter of King Enfrith of Hwicce, another Mercian sub-king.
The exiled Prince Caedwalla of Wessex invades Sussex and, though he kills King Aethelwalh, is driven out by the new joint Kings Bertun and Andhun.
Caedwalla invades Sussex for a second time, kills King Bertun of West Sussex and conquers the kingdom.
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 Ealry British Kingdoms Timeline
*St. Wilfred eventually returns to Britain but is shipwrecked in Sussex.
*King Wulfhere of Mercia hands the Meonware and the Isle of Wight over to his new ally, King Aethelwalh of Sussex.
*King Aethelwalh of Sussex gives St. Wilfred lands in Selsey to found a cathedral.
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