Brahhingas
The Brahhingas or Brahingas were a tribe or clan of Anglo-Saxon England whose territory was centred on the settlement of Braughing in modern-day Hertfordshire. The name of the tribe means "the people of Brahha",[1] with Brahha likely to have been either a leader of the tribe or a real or mythical ancestor.[2]
The tribe are first recorded in a
The territory of the Brahhingas exhibits a high degree of continuity with pre-Saxon eras. Immediately to the south of the tribe's
Alongside the Waeclingas and the Hicce, the Brahhingas were one of the most important tribes of the Anglo Saxon era within the area that would later become Hertfordshire, and the central places and territories of these areas were to be important building-blocks of the later administrative structure of the county.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Williamson 2000, p. 64.
- ^ Williamson 2000, p. 63.
- ^ Williamson 2013, p. 85.
- ^ a b Bailey 1989, p. 115.
- ^ a b Williamson 2013, p. 84.
- ^ Rowe & Williamson 2013, p. 116.
- ^ Williamson 2000, p. 85.
Bibliography
- Bailey, Keith (1989), "The Middle Saxons", in Bassett, Steven (ed.), The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, Leicester: Leicester University Press, pp. 108–122, ISBN 0718513177
- Rowe, Anne; Williamson, Tom (2013), Hertfordshire: A Landscape History, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, ISBN 1909291021, retrieved 2014-07-07
- Williamson, Tom (2000), The Origins of Hertfordshire, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 071904491X, retrieved 2014-07-06
- Williamson, Tom (2013), Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England: Time and Topography, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, ISBN 1843837374, retrieved 2014-07-06