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    perhaps as Westerna, becoming known as the Magonsæte by the 9th century. Smaller sub-tribes of the Magonsæte included the Temersæte near Hereford and the...
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    in present-day Lincolnshire; the Hwicce in the southwest Midlands; the Magonsæte or Magonset, a sub-kingdom of Mercia in what is now Herefordshire; the...
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    Bernicia Deira East Anglia Elmet Essex Hwicce Isle of Wight Kent Lindsey Magonsæte Mercia Northumbria Rheged Sussex Wessex York Monarchy Lists of Irish kings...
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    in England (created in 676 and based on the minor sub-kingdom of the Magonsæte) and is part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocesan Bishop of Hereford...
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    Saint Ethelbert. The diocese was founded for the minor sub-kingdom of the Magonsæte in 676. It now covers the whole of the county of Herefordshire, southern...
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    corresponding to Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and southern Warwickshire). Magonsæte A people of the Welsh border, also known as the Westerna, under Mercian...
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    kingdoms were also politically important across this period: Hwicce, Magonsaete, Lindsey and Middle Anglia. The first recorded landing of Vikings took...
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    was forced to flee into exile, perhaps to the western kingdom of the Magonsæte. He returned to East Anglia in about 653, but soon afterwards the kingdom...
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    the Cornovians seem to have divided into Pengwern and Powys. The minor Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in the area in the interlude between Powysian...
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    near the Romano-British town of Magnis, and was once part of the Angles' Magonsæte kingdom. The Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building. "Herefordshire...
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    the monastery at Burgh Castle and expel King Anna who probably flees to Magonsæte (approximate date). King Oswiu of Bernicia seeks Irish support against...
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    northerly of the three large Mercian subject kingdoms facing Wales, with the Magonsæte to their south, and the Hwicce farthest south. The chief place was seemingly...
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    consolidated his control of Midland peoples such as the Hwicce and the Magonsæte. Taking advantage of instability in the kingdom of Kent to establish himself...
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    Anglo-Saxon king Merewalh, who founded the abbey within his sub-kingdom of Magonsæte. The town adjoining the priory is now known as Much Wenlock, and lies...
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    Iclingas, a precursor state to Mercia Isle of Wight, (Wihtwara) Lindsey Magonsæte Meonwara, the Meon Valley area of Hampshire Pecsæte Surrey Tomsæte Wreocensæte...
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    Chunfeng, Chinese mathematician and historian (b. 602) Merewalh, king of Magonsæte (approximate date) Safiyya bint Huyayy, wife of Muhammad (approximate...
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    Cyneburh and Cyneswith; it is also possible that Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, was Wulfhere's brother. He married Eormenhild of Kent; no date is recorded...
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    were moved to Canterbury. Mildrith was the daughter of King Merewalh of Magonsaete, an area similar to the present day Herefordshire, a sub-kingdom of Mercia...
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    Kingdom of Sussex and begins to evangelise the people. King Merewalh of Magonsæte founds the monastery of Wenlock Priory in Shropshire, England, appointing...
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    Cyneburh and Cyneswith; it is also possible that Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, was Æthelred's brother. In 674, according to Stephen of Ripon, Wulfhere...
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    or Wrekinset in the northern part of what became Shropshire, and the Magonsæte in the southern part. Further south, the area north west of the Severn...
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    of Eormenred, a sub-king of Kent, marries Merewalh, a Mercian king of Magonsæte, by whom she has a son, Merfin (known as 'The Holy Child', who died while...
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    Humber. Many had kings, such as Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia, Kent, the Magonsæte, Lindsey, the Hwicce, Essex, and Sussex. Consolidation through war and...
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    construction of his dyke. Part of it consisted of the Anglian sub-kingdom of the Magonsæte and Wreocensæte. In Shrewsbury there is the Pengwern Boat Club on the...
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  • Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, and granddaughter of Eormenred, possibly a king of Kent Mildburh, daughter of Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, and granddaughter...
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  • meaning 'ford suitable for the passage of an army'. Originally known as Magonsæte (Magonset) meaning "people of Magnis", a former Roman town near the modern...
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  • royalty but were later absorbed into larger kingdoms include the peoples of Magonsæte, Lindsey, Hwicce, the East Saxons, the South Saxons, the Isle of Wight...
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    Leicester (for Mercia itself), Worcester (for the Hwicce), Hereford (for the Magonsæte) and Lindsey (for the Lindisfaras). The historic Bishop of Dorchester...
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    River Alne in modern-day Warwickshire) Weorgoran (Worcester) Westernas Magonsæte / Magonsætan (roughly in today's Herefordshire and South Shropshire) Hahlsæte...
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    Ermenilda of Ely ; Æthelred, King of Mercia 675–704 Merewalh, King of the Magonsæte; married a daughter of King Eormenred of Kent ; Mercelmus, sometimes mistranscribed...
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