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The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the early 10th century, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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- Northumbria. Northumbria was a region that stretched across the neck of northern England and covered much of the east coast and parts of southern Scotland.
- Mercia. Mercia was a large kingdom that covered most of middle England. Its fortunes fluctuated as it was bordered on all sides by potentially hostile rivals.
- Wessex. Wessex was an unstable, but fertile country that covered most of the south west of modern-day England. It was bordered by the Celtic kingdoms of Cornwall to its west, Mercia to its north and Kent to the east.
- East Anglia. East Anglia was the smallest of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but powerful during the reign of the Wuffingas dynasty. In the early 7th century, King Rædwald was baptised as a Christian, and the area has a lack of pagan settlement names, suggesting it was one of the earliest parts of England to adopt Christianity on a larger scale.
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- Kent. Settled by the Jutes, one of the three tribes that colonised England in the 5th century (the other two being the Angles and the Saxons), the legendary founders of Kent were the brothers Hengest and Horsa.
- Essex. Home of the East Saxons, the royal house of Essex claimed descent from the old tribal god of the Saxons, Seaxnet. They seem to have had a fondness of the letter “S”.
- Sussex. Legend attributes the founding of the kingdom to Ælle, a brave invader who fought with his sons against the Romano-British and viciously sacked a Roman fort.
- Northumbria. Dominating the North, during its height Northumbria stretched from the Humber and Mersey rivers in the South, to the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
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The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they were consolidated in the 8th century into the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.
Dec 19, 2023 · The Seven Kingdoms of England, often referred to as the Heptarchy, represent a significant period in early English history, which spanned approximately from the 5th to the 9th centuries. This era was marked by the emergence and dominance of seven principal kingdoms: Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria.
Anglo-Saxon England. The invaders and their early settlements. Anglo-Saxon England. Although Germanic foederati, allies of Roman and post-Roman authorities, had settled in England in the 4th century ce, tribal migrations into Britain began about the middle of the 5th century.