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| | King, Dunmail, Cumbria, Medieval, History, Dark Ages, Britons |
 | | One theory for this is that as Strathclyde was the crown seat of the kings of the Britons, people referred to the whole district as Strathclyde in much the same way as people refer to Great Britain as England. |
 | | The descendants of Corvus reigned at Dumbarton, beyond the Roman border, as an independent line of kings rivalling the client-kings of Roman Britain and were the ancestors of the later Kings of Strathclyde (543-889), surviving the Roman Era until the close of the early Middle Ages. |
 | | The kingdom came to an end as an independent state in Year 889 when its last native king, Eochu, was expelled by the Scots, whereupon he and the remaining members of the Strathclyde royal house fled to Wales, and disappear from history. |
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