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Kingdom of Essex

The Kingdom of the East Saxons (Old English: Ēastseaxna rīce; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Saxonum), referred to as the Kingdom of Essex /ˈɛsɪks/, was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.[a] It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Middlesex, much of Hertfordshire and (for a short while) west Kent. The last king of Essex was Sigered of Essex, who in 825 ceded the kingdom to Ecgberht, King of Wessex. From 825 Essex was ruled as part of a south-eastern kingdom of Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey. It was not until 860 that Essex was fully integrated into the crown of Wessex.

Kingdom of the East Saxons
Old English: Ēastseaxna rīce
Latin: Regnum Orientalium Saxonum

Old English

Paganism (before 7th century)
Christianity (after 7th century)

Monarchy

 

Æscwine (first)

Sigered (last)

Witenagemot

Heptarchy

527

825

Sceat

("the people of Hrōþa"),[12]

The Rodings

the Haemele, [13]

Hemel Hempstead

Vange – "marsh district" (possibly stretching to the Mardyke)

[14]

Denge

[5]

Ginges

[13]

Berecingas – , in the south west of the kingdom[15][16]

Barking

Haeferingas in the [15]

London Borough of Havering

Uppingas – [15]

Epping

Carpenter, Clive. Kings, Rulers and Statesmen. Guinness Superlatives, Ltd.

Ross, Martha. Rulers and Governments of the World, Vol. 1. Earliest Times to 1491.

Rippon, Stephen (2022). Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape: the Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press.  978-1-78327-680-6.

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