Middle Angles
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The Middle Angles were an important ethnic or cultural group within the larger kingdom of Mercia in England in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Origins and territory
It is likely that
Mercia
The Middle Angles were incorporated into the wider kingdom of Mercia, apparently well before the reign of
Following the defeat and death of
Political and ecclesiastical centre
The knowledge of Middle 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 area. The ecclesiastical history is better recorded with an area comparable to the central Mercian diocese of Lichfield, the Middle Anglian territory was therefore a major ecclesiastical centre of the wider Mercian kingdom. The early ecclesiastical see was at Leicester.
The see moved to
See also
- Bedfordshire
- Saint Albans
- Northamptonshire
- Soke of Peterborough
References
Notes
- ^ a b Garmonsway 1972, p. 28; Bede 1968, p. 176.
- ^ Bede 1968, pp. 176–7.
- ^ Bede 1968, p. 177.
- ^ Yorke 1990, p. 107.
Bibliography
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