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	Kingdom of Wessex - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kingdom of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His tragic tales, set in the fictional county of ‘Wessex’, received a hostile reception from the public.
		Thomas Hardy used the term Wessex in his novels for the southwest counties of England; drawing on England's west country, the heartland was Dorset but its outlying boundary markers were Plymouth, Bath, Oxford, and Southampton.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kingdom+of+Wessex (218 words)

	Wessex : Kingdom of Wessex
		Wessex was one of the seven kingdoms from which England was formed in about the 9th century.
		There are conflicting legends regarding the foundation of the kingdom, involving Cerdic and Cynric, or Port and his son, plus a later mention of the 'West Saxons'.
		Wessex was used by Thomas Hardy in his novels as an imaginary but parallel area of southwestern England.
	www.fastload.org /ki/Kingdom_of_Wessex.html (309 words)

	Encyclopedia: House of Wessex
		The House of Wessex refers to the family that ruled a kingdom in South-West England known as Wessex.
		This House was in power from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex to the unification of the Kingdoms of England.
		Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/House-of-Wessex (799 words)

	Definition of Kingdom of Wessex
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		The Wessex Society is a cultural society which promotes a cultural identity for Wessex while remaining neutral on questions of political devolution.
		Wessex groups are currently campaigning for boundary revisions to the regions in order to more closely match their definitions of Wessex.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Kingdom_of_Wessex (768 words)

	Wessex culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wessex culture is a name given to the predominant prehistoric culture of southern Britain during the Bronze Age.
		It should not be confused with the later Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
		Active during the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, our knowledge of the Wessex people comes from their burial practices as no settlement evidence has yet been positively identified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wessex_culture (188 words)

	Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wessex was presumably subject to Penda of Mercia during this interval.
		In 715 Wessex would appear to have been invaded by the Mercians since the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' notes that Ine and Ceolred "fought" at a place called 'Woddes beorge' (Woden's Barrow), which is identified with a tumulus now known as 'Adam's Grave', in Wiltshire.
		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.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /wessex.htm (16495 words)

	Britannia: Narrative History of Saxon Somerset
		The nearest Saxons, in the Kingdom of Wessex, centred on Wiltshire and Hampshire, made an early incursion into the area in AD 577, defeating the armies of three local kings at the Battle of Dyrham.
		Wessex had pushed back Dumnonian control but was not able to fully establish its government over the 'Summer lands' of its Western settlers.
		Somerset became one of the heartland shires of the Kingdom of Wessex.
	www.britannia.com /history/somerset/somhist5.html (1376 words)

	World Team Cup
		Kingdom of Wessex and Kingdom of Russ raise their defences against Spain, though the latter one keeps its leadership.
		Kingdom of Wessex (group 1) is obviuosly aiming to the FInal.
		Kingdom of Russ (group 5) and The Barbarians (group 6) advance to the 2nd Round.
	www.dbaol.com /cup_news.htm (478 words)

	History Bookshop.com: Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The historical kingdom of Wessex is said to have been founded by West Saxons or Gewissas, under Cerdic and his son, Cynric, in 519.
		Wessex's territory was increased and its power strengthened under Alfred; he and his son, Edward the Elder, transformed the kingship of Wessex into that of England.
		Although no longer a separate kingdom, Wessex retained its identity until the Norman period: Cnut (Canute) made Godwin Earl of Wessex and his son, who became Harold II of England, succeeded him.
	www.historybookshop.com /articles/places/wessex.asp (410 words)

	Thomas Hardy and his Wessex Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He descibed it in the preface to a later edition that the names usefulness was a means of giving his stories what we would now call a coporate identity and it was to become part of his own trademark.
		Wessex is in south-western England, encompassing Dorset and parts of Devon, between Plymouth and Southampton.
		This is the ancient kingdom of Wessex, which Hardy revived in order to emphasise the traditional lore that his stories and books are rooted in.
	neal.oxborrow.net /Thomas_Hardy/WessexMap.htm (197 words)

	Thomas Hardy Country : Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Hardy first used the term "Wessex" in his 1874 novel, Far From the Madding Crowd.
		The extinct kingdom to which Hardy refers, of course, is that ancient kingdom of the
		Wessex, and the site of a minster church since the year 648.
	members.aol.com /thardy1001/wessex.html (577 words)

	Wiglaf Of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His rule coincided with the rise of the rival Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Egbert.
		At this time, Mercia was engaged in a conflict with the rising power of Wessex, which had begun during the reign of Beornwulf in 825, and in 829, Egbert of Wessex successfully invaded Mercia and drove Wiglaf from his throne.
		Historically speaking, this event marked the beginning of the domination of England by Wessex, but the Mercians regained their independence and brought Wiglaf back to power in the following year.
	wiglaf-of-mercia.wikiverse.org (232 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wessex culture
		The Wessex culture is a name given to the predominant prehistoric culture of southern Britain during the early Bronze Age.
		The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
		A map showing the general locations of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The Anglo-Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes from Angelnâ€”a peninsula in the southern part of Schleswig, protruding into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of Germanyâ€”who...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wessex-culture (590 words)

	Ceawlin Of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ceawlin of Wessex (also spelled "Ceaulin" or "Caelin") is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as being king of the West Saxons, or Wessex from 560 to 591, and named by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum as the second Bretwalda.
		He may have been a member of their ruling dynasty; the surviving genealogies of the Wessex royal line all have contradictions, and scholars suspect that these have been altered to support the claims of descent by later rulers.
		In other words, there was no centralized kingdom of Wessex at this time, instead Wessex was properly a federation of varying closeness of petty rulers.
	www.wikiverse.org /ceawlin-of-wessex (1516 words)

	Cerdic of Wessex - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		467- 534) was an early King of Wessex (519 - 534).
		The conquest of the Isle of Wight is also mentioned among his campaigns, and it was later given to his nephews, Stuf and Wihtgar (who brought many other Saxons with them).
		In 519, by which time Cerdic and his subjects had established themselves firmly, Cerdic created the kingdom of Wessex and became its first king.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Cerdic_of_Wessex (160 words)

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		Wessex was the last of the Saxon kingdoms to be converted, their inhabitants being especially fierce and warlike.
		The kingdom was far from being prosperous when Elizabeth assumed the reins of government, and it is the enormous stride in civilization which England made during her reign, beset with so many perils, which constitutes her chief claim to the admiration of mankind.
		She was as beautiful as she was good; at her castle in Pau, the capital of her hereditary kingdom of Navarre, she diffused a magnificent hospitality, especially to scholars and the lights of the reformed doctrines.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/0/6/2/10627/10627.txt (19241 words)

	Earl Aethelred Of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His title was "Lord of the Mercians", and he was subject to the power of Wessex.
		In 886, he was given control of London by King Alfred of Wessex, whose sister, Ethelfleda, he married.
		As Alfred reconquered the Danelaw, it was useful to place the heir to the destroyed Kingdom of Mercia in control of its former area: this allowed the expansion of the Kingdom of Wessex to appear as the liberation of areas conquered by the Danes.
	www.wikiverse.org /earl-aethelred-of-mercia (141 words)

	Wessex Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The ancient kingdom of Wessex in the southwest of England is famous for its pervading sense of magic and timelessness.
		Wessex Records seeks to harness some of that magical power and share it with listeners the world over.
		Wessex Studio is used to produce material for Wessex Record's artists.
	www.wessexrecords.com (253 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-DORSET
		The shield symbolises the District of East Dorset in the ancient Kingdom of Wessex.
		The Saxon Cross symbolizes the ancient kingdom of Wessex, a name which is synonymous with the novels of Thomas Hardy.
		The sea wyverns are appropriate to a district which was once the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex (whose kings used a golden wyvern as their emblem) and with traditional maritime associations.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /dorset.html (1144 words)

	Cerdic of Wessex - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		467–534), was the King of Wessex (519–534), and was regarded as the ancestors to all subsequent Kings of Wessex.
		Nowhere was the strife fiercer than here; and it was not till 519 that a decisive victory at Charford ended the struggle for the "Gwent" and set the crown of the West-Saxons on the head of Cerdic." The West Saxons also fought a British king named Natanleod in Wiltshire and slew him.
		They were called the West Saxons and the Kingdom of Cerdic was named Wessex.
	en.freepedia.org /Cerdic_of_Wessex.html (584 words)

	Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia
		First of all, Normandy had close ties of friendship and kinship with Wessex going back to 988 when a formal treaty arranged by the Pope between Normandy and Wessex was signed where both agreed not to harbor the other’s enemies (namely, hostile Vikings).
		Normandy was the closest land opposite Wessex on the continent.
		The kingdom of Wessex had only asserted it’s primacy as the lead Kingdom during the reign of Aethelstan during the early tenth century.
	www.markland.org /normanclaim.php (932 words)

	Museum of London: Exhibitions: Alfred the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The power of the kingdom of Wessex extended from Cornwall to Essex.
		Alfred's father Ethelwulf was the king of Wessex, and a descendant of Cerdic, the legendary 6th-century founder of the West Saxon royal house.
		While Alfred was growing up, relations between the West Saxons of Wessex and the Mercians improved dramatically in the face of common enemies, the Welsh and the Vikings.
	www.museumoflondon.org.uk /MOLsite/exhibits/alfred (373 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Anglo-Saxon Isle of Wight: 400 - 900 AD - A599682
		It is believed that Mercia did capture the Isle of Wight from the Kingdom of Wessex, and it became part of the Kingdom of Sussex.
		In this way after all the kingdoms of Britain had received the faith, the Isle of Wight received it too, yet because it was suffering under the affliction of alien rule, it had no bishop nor see...
		Essentially, the Isle of Wight was recaptured from the Kingdom of the South Saxons and became part of the Kingdom of the West Saxons.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A599682 (2821 words)

	The Wessex Conference Centre - Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Winchester was later one of the largest Roman settlements in Britain; as Venta Belgarum the town become capital of Wessex in 519, and under Alfred the Great and Canute it was the seat of government.
		Originally a Roman town, Winchester was capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and later of England.
		Winchester Cathedral (1079–93) is the longest medieval church in Europe and was remodelled from Norman-Romanesque to Perpendicular Gothic under the patronage of William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester College in 1382), who is buried there, as are Saxon kings, St Swithun, and the writers Izaac Walton and Jane Austen.
	www.thewessexcentre.co.uk /winch.htm (302 words)

	Wessex Hotel, High Street, Street presented by A1 Tourism
		e welcome you to the Wessex, a modern hotel that nestles in the heart of historic and beautiful Somerset, in the Ancient Kingdom of Wessex.
		The Wessex Hotel is the ideal venue for the conference Delegate in the West Country, located near the centre of Somerset in the Mendip Area, having a choice of three different-sized conference rooms as well as a large free car park.
		We at the Wessex Hotel invite you to stay at one of our 49 spacious en-suite rooms, each offering you modern three star amenities including colour television, telephone, courtesy tea and coffee tray and trouser press.
	www.a1tourism.com /uk/wessexhotel.html (477 words)

	The Wessex Hotel - Bournemouth, United Kingdom
		Atop the prestigious West Cliff, the Wessex Hotel is one of Bournemouth's leading hotels.
		Ideally located just a few minutes from the beach and within easy walking distance of the town centre, the hotel is easily accessible from all parts of the country, and offers a large free car park for over 160 vehicles.
		The Wessex boasts a modern leisure centre with indoor and outdoor heated pools, sauna, solarium and gym.
	www.secure-bookings.co.uk /bournemouth/thewessexhotelbh25eu.html (217 words)

	EBK for Kids: Saxon Kingdom of Wessex
		He lived in the 520s and was the first King of Wessex.
		The kingdom of the Jutes soon became part of the Kingdom of Wessex.
		There were lots of famous Kings of Wessex in the 9th Century, especially Egbert, Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /kids/wessex.html (176 words)

	ALFRED THE GREAT
		The Kingdom of Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Silver Penny, 1.42g., Third Coinage, Two Line type, London dies, sub-type 3, (c.880-899), +ELFRED E around a circle containing a cross pattée, rev., CVĐVVLF in two lines separated by two groups of three pellets and a pellet (N.636; S.1066
		In addition to c.5000 newly minted coins of the Viking Kingdoms of York and East Anglia, there were c.1000 Anglo-Saxon issues, c.1000 Carolingian issues and a handful of Kufic, early Scandinavian and 1 Byzantine one.
		Whatever the exact reason there is a strong Irish dimension to the hoard from both its location and from some of the silver jewelry in the hoard.
	www.yorkcoins.com /alfred_the_great.htm (410 words)

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