• A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript...
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    10th-century manuscript copy of the "Anglian collection" of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. The manuscript is thought to have been made at Glastonbury...
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  • England Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England List of Anglo-Saxon deities Anglo-Saxon dress Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies Anglo-Saxon glass...
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  • from another royal lineage erroneously added to the standard genealogy. Some of the genealogies end in Geat (or Geata) who is identified as an ancestor of...
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    Collection of Royal Genealogies and Regnal Lists', Anglo-Saxon England, 5 (1976), 23–50 David N. Dumville, 'The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and...
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    The Anglian collection is a collection of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies and regnal lists. These survive in four manuscripts; two of which now reside in...
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    Period who is described as a descendant of the god Woden by the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. The Iclingas reached the height of their power under Offa of...
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    Merovech, who is at the center of many legends. Unlike the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, the Merovingians never claimed descent from a god, nor is there...
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  • the name of Vigletus. In the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, Whitlæg is a descendant of Woden. According to the genealogies in the Anglian collection, Woden's...
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    Æscwine of Essex (category East Saxon monarchs)
    Æscwine or Erkenwine (died 587) is listed in some Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies as the first king of Essex and father of Sledd. Most sources list Sledd...
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    who figure among the ancestors of the kings of Wessex in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. As Eadgils was a contemporary of Ermanaric, who died about...
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    Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later...
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    Beowa (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
    figure in Anglo-Saxon traditional religion associated with barley and agriculture. The figure is attested in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies as they were...
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  • rather than from Wægdæg. Other Anglo-Saxon genealogies mention: Weothulgeot or Wihtlæg. According to the genealogies in the Anglian collection, Weothulgeot...
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    English monarchs Kentish Royal Legend Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies On the Resting-Places of the Saints (list of Anglo-Saxon saints - Secgan) Campbell...
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  • peoples assembled, each potentially favouring an individual god. Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies Horses of the Æsir List of Germanic deities Norse cosmology...
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    Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism...
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    The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now...
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    Anglo-Saxon law (Old English: ǣ, later lagu 'law'; dōm 'decree', 'judgment') was the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England from the 6th century until the...
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    West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (also known as the West Saxon Regnal Table, West Saxon Regnal List, and Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)...
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  • Germanic law Kingship in early Irish law Merovingians Agilolfings Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies (list) Kings of Burgundy Ynglings (legendary kings of Sweden)...
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  • (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). Wuffa becomes the first king of East Anglia, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies (approximate date)...
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    Cerdic of Wessex (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    CHER-ditch; Latin: Cerdicus) is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first...
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    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle...
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    [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest...
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    recitation in proper order of genealogies, and also to name the genealogies. Taonui, Rāwiri (1 Jul 2015). "Story: Whakapapa – genealogy". Te Ara, Encyclopedia...
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    Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in England which typically made a grant of land or recorded a privilege. The earliest...
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    Flemings, Frenchmen, indigenous Anglo-Saxons and Celtic Britons. A small number of Normans had earlier befriended future Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edward the...
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  • Seaxnēat (category Anglo-Saxon gods)
    with the Anglo-Saxon verb nēotan, is less widely accepted. Wōden is the divine progenitor in the other surviving Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, so presumably...
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    Government in Anglo-Saxon England covers English government during the Anglo-Saxon period from the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. See Government...
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