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    The Tribal Hidage is a list of thirty-five tribes that was compiled in Anglo-Saxon England some time between the 7th and 9th centuries. It includes a...
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    Anglo-Jutes-Saxons (Anglian-Jutish-Saxonian tribes, organized in Tribal Hidages, tribal lands) (new ethnolinguistic group formed by migration toward and...
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    points out "they all just happened to be related back to Woden". The Tribal Hidage is evidence of the existence of numerous smaller provinces, meaning...
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    Other surviving sources include a problematic document known as the Tribal Hidage, which may provide further evidence of Offa's scope as a ruler, though...
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    000-hides listed in the Tribal Hidage, comprised the territory of these four towns: the 4,000 hides for the Chilternsetna in the Tribal Hidage matches the 4,000...
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    assessments in the Hidage reflect the relative size of the provinces. Although varying in size, all thirty-five peoples of the Tribal Hidage were of the same...
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    other ruling houses of the small Midlands peoples as recorded in the Tribal Hidage and assessed as having between 300 and 600 hides of land. Icel's ancestry...
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  • Hide (unit) (redirect from Hidage)
    properties with the same hidage could vary greatly in extent even in the same county. Following the Norman Conquest of England, the hidage assessments were recorded...
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    century Tribal Hidage as the inhabitants of a minor territory of 600 hides. They were the most northerly group recorded in the Tribal Hidage. Probably...
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    East Anglia is first mentioned as a distinct political unit in the Tribal Hidage, thought to have been compiled somewhere in England during the 7th century...
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    overlord of Northumbria as his father had been. A document called the Tribal Hidage may date from Wulfhere's reign. Drawn up before many smaller groups...
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    sub-kingdom of Mercia as a result of the Battle of Cirencester. The Tribal Hidage assessed Hwicce at 7,000 hides, an agricultural economy akin to either...
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    province between Mercia and Northumbria, occupied, according to the Tribal Hidage, by the Anglo-Saxon Pecsæte. The area came under the control of the...
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    England (3rd edition. Oxford U. P. 1971). Monarchs of Britain, Encyclopædia Britannica ogdoad.force9.co.uk: The Burghal Hidage – Wessex's fortified burhs...
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  • plural and probably means "the westerners". They occur only in the Tribal Hidage, an early eighth-century catalogue of kingdoms and principalities produced...
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    that the territory that was called "the first of the Mercians" in the Tribal Hidage covered much of south Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire...
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    Angles's political history is limited, the name is not used for the Tribal Hidage with smaller areas listed and identified to be part of or around the...
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    tribute of a hundred thousand hides if Nick Higham's conception of the Tribal Hidage's origins is correct. In the 630s, Bishop Birinus established himself...
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    settlement. The name Wrocensaete was long in use, first occurring in the Tribal Hidage (a tribute list which is normally dated to the seventh century) and...
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    province between Mercia and Northumbria, occupied, according to the Tribal Hidage, by the Anglo-Saxon Pecsæte. The area came under the control of the...
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    in addition to performing their normal services to their king. The Tribal Hidage, a primary document, shows the distribution of land within 8th-century...
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    England, the names of a number of peoples of the Fens are recorded in the Tribal Hidage and Christian histories. They include North Gyrwe (Peterborough and...
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  • Fens, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow. Hugh Candidus, a twelfth-century chronicler...
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    Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650: Beneath the Tribal Hidage. Oxbow Books (June 4, 2014). p. 201 Georg Haggren; Petri Halinen; Mika...
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    from the king's subjects. A document from the 7th or 8th century, the Tribal Hidage, shows that much of the Anglo-Saxon lands had been divided into hides...
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    parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th century. In the Tribal Hidage it is listed as containing 7,000 hides. Although the kingdom of Essex...
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  • historian D. P. Kirby, the Arosæte territory (valued at 600 hides by the Tribal Hidage) probably followed the valleys of the two River Arrows, the Worcestershire...
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  • While Cuthwulf and his battles may be retrospective constructions, the Tribal Hidage (7th to 9th century) described the territory of the Cilternsæte as comprising...
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    and may be associated with 'Faerpinga in Middelenglum' listed in the Tribal Hidage of the 7th to 9th centuries. The name is a compound of two Old English...
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  • The Sweordora were an Anglian tribe who, according to the Tribal Hidage, lived in the vicinity of Sword Point, Whittlesey Mere, Cambridgeshire (formerly...
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