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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Anglic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kentish was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.
		Mercian was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
		Northumbrian was a dialect spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anglic-languages (768 words)

	Kingdom of Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Kingdom of the East Seaxe (one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy) was founded around 500 AD and covered the territory currently occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
		The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west the.
		For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom also encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South, but by the mid 8th century much of the kingdom, including London, had fallen to Mercia.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kingdom_of_Essex (434 words)

	Anglo-Saxon - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Still more curious is the fact that West Saxon writers regularly speak of their own nation as a part of the Angelcyn and of their language as Englisc, while the West Saxon royal family claimed to be of the same stock as that of Bernicia.
		Archeological explorations have indicated that Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established in Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and Essex in the later part of the 5th century, as well as East Anglia, Lindsey (now Lincolnshire), Deira (now East Yorkshire) and the Isle of Wight.
		The various tribes established a large number of kingdoms in what today is known as England, which were popularly described to have later consolidated into seven states known as the Heptarchy.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /anglo-saxon.htm (1727 words)

	Kings of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 705 the vast West Saxon bishopric of Winchester - for the see established by Birinus at Dorchester had lapsed at some point in the second half of the seventh century - was divided.
		It is likely, for example, that already in Ine's day the West Saxon kingdom was divided for administrative purposes into shires, each of them centred upon an important royal estate and presided over by an ealdorman who was in some sense the king's deputy in his shire.
		Essex is the ancient kingdom of the East Saxons, and the 'North-folk' and 'South-folk' of the East Anglian kingdom were perpetuated as the shires of Norfolk and Suffolk.
	www.jim-riddell.com /history/kings/kings_of_wessex.htm (11212 words)

	Introduction & Abbreviations
		O.N. Old Norse, the Norwegian language as written and spoken c.100 to 1500 C.E., the relevant phase of it being "Viking Norse" (700-1100), the language spoken by the invaders and colonizers of northern and eastern England c.875-950.
		West African, languages of the Guinea coast and inland regions of Africa, the principal source of slaves for the European colonies in the New World.
		West Germanic, the subgroup of Germanic comprising English, Dutch, German, Yiddish, Frisian, etc.; also the language spoken by the ancestral group during the presumed period of unity.
	www.etymonline.com /abbr.php (3129 words)

	CEAWLIN - LoveToKnow Article on CEAWLIN
		Silchester was taken, and moving eastwards Ceawlin and his brother Cutha defeated the forces of ~thelberht, king of Kent, at the battle of Wibbandun in 568.
		In 577 he led the West Saxons from Winchester towards the Severn valley; gained an important victory over some British kings at Deorham, and added the district round Gloucester, Bath and Cirencester to his kingdom.
		In 59, Ceawlin lost the western part of his kingdom, and in 592 was defeated by his nephew, Ceolric, at Wanborough, and driven from Wessex.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CEAWLIN.htm (212 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wessex
		Founded in AD 519 by the Gewissae (a Saxon tribe descended from Gewis), Cerdic's West Saxon kingdom seems initially to have been forged from earlier Saxons living in the area.
		This happened at about the same time as the Saxons in southern Britain were reeling from their heavy defeat at Mons Badonicus.
		The Kingdom of Dumnonia is defeated at the battle of Peonna.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandWessex.htm (709 words)

	CERDIC - LoveToKnow Article on CERDIC
		534), founder of the West Saxon kingdom, is described as an ealdorman who in 495 landed with his son Cynric in Hampshire, where he was attacked at once by the Britons.
		Strengthened by fresh arrivals of Saxons, he gained another victory in 519 at Certicesford, a spot which has been identified with the modern Charford, and in this year took the title of king.
		Turning westward, Cerdic appears to have been defeated by the Britons in 520 at Badbury or Mount Badon, in Dorset, and in 527 yet another fight with the Britons is recorded.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CERDIC.htm (220 words)

	Anglo-Saxon kingdom genealogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From it, lists of kings can be drawn up, which shed light on the origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
		The Winchester manuscript lists the genealogy of the West Saxon kingdom (Wessex) in England up to King Alfred the Great and was written in the late 9th century.
		This view is also held by Saxo Grammaticus, who in Gesta Danorum tells the tale of Balder and his father Odin and a love affair involving the Swedish chief Höder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-Saxon_kingdom_genealogy (298 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Alfred 'The Great'
		Born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849, Alfred was the fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons.
		Like other West Saxon kings, Alfred established a legal code; he assembled the laws of Offa and other predecessors, and of the kingdoms of Mercia and Kent, adding his own administrative regulations to form a definitive body of Anglo-Saxon law.
		It is for his valiant defence of his kingdom against a stronger enemy, for securing peace with the Vikings and for his farsighted reforms in the reconstruction of Wessex and beyond, that Alfred - alone of all the English kings and queens - is known as 'the Great'.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page25.asp (1457 words)

	Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services
		The roots of the English language lie in the migration of the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons during the fifth and sixth centuries to what is now called Great Britain.
		The establishment of separate kingdoms corresponds approximately to the growth of the Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish - the Old English dialects.
		Northumbrian was the culturally superior language until this mantle passed during the ninth century to Wessex, the West Saxon kingdom.
	www.writingenglish.com /history.htm (733 words)

	Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Saxons celebrated this as a victory, because they killed many of the Danish earls including one of their kings, Bacseg, but the Danes were able to regroup just two weeks later for the battle of Basing, and this time the Danes were victorious.
		Although Alfred is certainly the best known of the West Saxon kings, much of what we think we know about him is myth, created by later writers in veneration of the saviour of the Saxons who alone held back the onslaught of the Danes and who established a period of prosperity in England.
		It was now that Alfred became regarded by all the Saxons of England as their overlord, but he was never king of all England, as the Danes still held the greater part of the north and east.
	xpda.com /family/fam00781.htm (3284 words)

	Anglo-Saxon Heathen Timeline
		Given date for the arrival of the West Saxons in Britain at Cerdicesora.
		Ceawlin becomes the West Saxon king and rules for thirty years.
		The Heathen Cadwalla, succeeds to the West Saxon throne
	www.homestead.com /englishheathenism/timeline.html (1237 words)

	King Ceawlin of West Saxons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ruled West Saxons, 560-92 or 571 (or 581)-88.
		Since the ASC gave an equally lengthy reign to Cynric, this is suggestive either of other forgotten kings, with the reigns of the known kings extended to fill the gaps, or of prolongation of reigns to establish a more ancient pedigree, something later Wessex annalists were likely to desire once Wessex became the primary power.
		In 568 (or 583) he teamed up with fellow Saxon cutha to fight on a united front against athelbert, the new king of Kent, who was expanding his frontiers, which suggests that Ceawlin was stretching his own borders to the east.
	xpda.com /family/ind01319.htm (525 words)

	Britannia: The AngloSaxon Chronicle
		Burhelm and Mucca; and a synod was holden at Cliff's-Hoo.
		the Mercian kingdom, and all that is south of the Humber, being
		Saxons: the third was Ethelbert, King of Kent; the fourth was
	www.britannia.com /history/docs/801-42.html (1020 words)

	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 702-799 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was succeeded in the kingdom of Wessex by Ethelhard his relative, who held it fourteen years; but he fought this same year with Oswald the etheling.
		On the death of Archbishop Nothelm, Cuthbert was consecrated archbishop, and Dunn, Bishop of Rochester.
		In the meantime, the heathen armies spread devastation among the Northumbrians, and plundered the monastery of King Everth at the mouth of the Wear.
	www.chrisbutterworth.com /hist/asc0702.htm (3378 words)

	Aelle of Sussex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ælle was king of the South Saxons from 477 to perhaps as late as 514, and was named Bretwalda by Bede, who adds that he was overlord of the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber river.
		The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at this point begins narrating the events of the founding of the West Saxon kingdom, or Wessex, so it is possible that the scribe assembling this chronicle forgot to return to the events of Ælle's life.
		It has been suggested that Ælle led the Anglo-Saxon army at the Battle of Mons Badonicus, possibly as early as 496, though the Annales Cambriae in the Historia Brittonum records the date as 516), and some scholars wonder if Ælle was killed in the battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aelle_of_Sussex (300 words)

	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 800-898 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Egbert succeeded to the West-Saxon kingdom; and the same day Ethelmund, alderman of the Wiccians, rode over the Thames at Kempsford; where he was met by Alderman Woxtan, with the men of Wiltshire, and a terrible conflict ensued, in which both the commanders were slain, but the men of Wiltshire obtained the victory.
		This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night; and King Egbert, in the course of the same year, conquered the Mercian kingdom, and all that is south of the Humber, being the eighth king who was sovereign of all the British dominions.
		And then his two sons succeeded to the kingdom; Ethelbald to the kingdom of the West-Saxons, and Ethelbert to the kingdom of the Kentish-men, and of the East-Saxons, and of Surrey, and of the South-Saxons.
	www.chrisbutterworth.com /hist/asc0800.htm (6719 words)

	Kingdom of Northumbria (Anglo-Saxon Age) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The name of this emerging kingdom, was like Deira, probably an adaptation of an existing Celtic name and would come to be synonymous with the North Eastern region in the centuries to come.
		It was unlikely to stop Acha's brother Edwin from claiming the kingdom of Deira but it was too dangerous for Edwin to remain in Northumbria and he sought protection at the court of King Cearl of Mercia (an Angle kingdom based in the Midlands).
		The age of Bede was something of a heyday for the Kingdom of Northumbria, but in the late eighth century Northumbria was plagued with weak leadership and collapsed into a state of anarchy caused by rivalry between the royal houses of Deira and Bernicia.
	www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk /KingdomofNorthumbria.htm (6552 words)

	HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay Express
		Groups of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came to aid the Britons who were besieged by Picts and Scots after the Roman military withdrew in 410 AD (Bright, 1992).
		The West Saxons were the most powerful of the new kingdoms, and the only one able to withstand the Viking invasion in the 9th century AD.
		West Saxon was the written standard during the reign of Alfred the Great from 871 to 899 AD.
	www.essayexpress.com /essay/008150.html (2188 words)

	WILTSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on WILTSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Close to Salisbury it is joined by the united streams of the Nadder and the \Vylye; by the Ebble, which drains the vale of Chalk; and by the Bourne, which flows south by west from its head near Ludgershall.
		Cropping out from beneath the Chalk is a fringe of the SelbornianUpper Greensand and Gaultthe former is well exposed in the vale of Pewsey, west of Devizes, and along the margins of the vale of Wardour; it forms a broad, hilly tract from Mere through Stourton to Warminster.
		On the division of the West Saxon see Ifl 703 Wiltshire was included in the diocese of Sherborne, but in 905 a separate diocese of Wilton was founded, the see being fixed alternately at Ramsbury, Wilton and Sunning in Berkshire.
	97.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILTSHIRE.htm (4948 words)

	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Part 2: A.D. 750 - 919
		And then his two sons succeeded to the kingdom; Ethelbald to the kingdom of the West-Saxons, and Ethelbert to the kingdom of the Kentish-men, and of the East-Saxons, and of Surrey, and of the South-Saxons.
		This year were nine general battles fought with the army in the kingdom south of the Thames; besides those skirmishes, in which Alfred the king's brother, and every single alderman, and the thanes of the king, oft rode against them; which were accounted nothing.
		When the king heard that, then went he west towards Exeter with all his force, except a very considerable part of the eastern army, who advanced till they came to London; and there being joined by the citizens and the reinforcements that came from the west, they went east to Barnfleet.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/england/saxons2.htm (10778 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Dunstan
		Glastonbury on the estate of his father, Heorstan, a West Saxon noble.
		Against all this ardour of reform was the West-Saxon party, which included most of the saint's own relations and the Saxon nobles, and which was not entirely disinterested in its preference for established customs.
		In October, 959, Eadwig died and his brother was readily accepted as ruler of the West-Saxon kingdom.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05199a.htm (2914 words)

	Anglo-Saxon Heathen Timeline
		Given date for the arrival of the West Saxons in Britain at Cerdicesora.
		Ceawlin becomes the West Saxon king and rules for thirty years.
		The Heathen Cadwalla, succeeds to the West Saxon throne
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /texttimeline.html (638 words)

	Anglo Saxon Chronicle : AD 702 - AD 799
		A.D. This year was slain Cynric, etheling of the West- Saxons; Edbert, King of Kent, died; and Ethelbert, son of King Wihtred, succeeded to the kingdom.
		A.D. This year died Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons; and Sebright, his relative, succeeded to the kingdom, which he held one year; Cyneard succeeded Humferth in the see of Winchester; and Canterbury was this year on fire.
		But he having understood that the king was gone, thinly attended, on a visit to a lady at Merton, (28) rode after him, and beset him therein; surrounding the town without, ere the attendants of the king were aware of him.
	celt.net /Celtic/msg/angsx/angsx_702799.html (3391 words)

	"Of Saxons, Angles, and Jutes"
		Further aid was sought, and in response "came men of three peoples of Germanie": "of Ald Seaxum of Anglum of Iotum" (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes).
		His son, Æthelwulf maintained his father's kingdom and around 849 he added Berkshire to the holdings of the West Saxon kingdom.
		Meanwhile, his oldest son, Æthelbald, and the nobles of Wessex, stripped Æthelwulf of his kingship, and West Saxon kingdom was sundered, with Æthelbald getting Wessex and Æthelwulf taking Kent and other parts of SE England.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/oe.html (2212 words)

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