Middle Saxons

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Essex and Middlesex during the Heptarchy.
Middle Saxons (yellow) shown within Mercia.

The Middle Saxons or Middel Seaxe[citation needed] were a people whose territory later became, with somewhat contracted boundaries, the county of Middlesex, England.

The first known mention of Middlesex stems from a royal charter of 704 between king Swæfred of Essex, the abdicating king Æthelred of Mercia and succeeding king Coenred of Mercia, granting some land to bishop Walhere in Tuican hom (Twickenham) in the provincia called Middleseaxan.[1][2][3]

It likely included the early London settlement, Lundenwic,[citation needed] and probably Surrey,[citation needed] the "south region" of the Middle Saxon territory. There is also some evidence that may suggest Middle Saxon settlement in western Kent.

The name reflects the situation of these people being in the middle between the

better source needed] at the beginning of the 7th century,[6] but was ceded to Mercia in the 9th century (825).[7]

The Middle Saxons were originally

Latin
was used in writing.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781107652910
    . Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  2. ^ "First written mention of 'Tuican hom' in a Charter 704". The Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  3. ISBN 9780713400700
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  4. S2CID 154046387
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  5. ^ Keightley, Thomas, The History of England (1841), p.9.
  6. ^ Encarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "Essex [aardrijkskunde]". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.
  7. ^ http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/EnglandMiddlesex.htm The History Files - Middel Seaxe (Middle Saxons / Middlesex)


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